Marine Species Traits - Madracis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

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Madracis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

Madracis asperula Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849, slender branch.

AphiaID

135125 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135125)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Madracis asperula Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Pocilloporidae Gray, 1840

Original name

Madracis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

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Species Madracis asanoi Yabe & Sugiyama, 1936
Species Madracis asperula Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
Species Madracis auretenra Locke, Weil & Coates, 2007
Species Madracis brueggemanni (Ridley, 1881)
Species Madracis calzadai Reig Oriol, 1988 †
Species Madracis carmabi Vermeij, Diekmann & Bak, 2003
Species Madracis crescentensis Durham, 1942 †
Species Madracis decactis (Lyman, 1859)
Species Madracis decaphylla Chevalier, 1961 †
Species Madracis densa Budd, 1992 †
Species Madracis dodecachora Squires, 1958 †
Species Madracis duncani Wells, 1945 †
Species Madracis formosa Wells, 1973
Species Madracis fragilis Neves & Johnsson, 2009
Species Madracis ganei Vaughan, 1900 †
Species Madracis gregorioi Vaughan, 1900 †
Species Madracis hellana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850
Species Madracis herrecki Wells, 1934 †
Species Madracis interjecta Marenzeller, 1907
Species Madracis johnsoni Vaughan, 1900 †
Species Madracis johnwellsi Frost & Langenheim, 1974 †
Species Madracis kauaiensis Vaughan, 1907
Species Madracis kirbyi Veron & Pichon, 1976
Species Madracis myriaster (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850)
Species Madracis ornata (Michelotti, 1838) †
Species Madracis pharensis (Heller, 1868)
Species Madracis profunda Zibrowius, 1980
Species Madracis pulchella Chevalier, 1961 †
Species Madracis senaria Wells, 1973
Species Madracis stewarti Durham, 1942 †
Species Madracis vaughani Wells, 1941 †

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Mémoire sur les Polypes appartenant à la famille des Oculinides, au groupe intermédiaire des Pseudastréides et à la famille des Fongides. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris. 29: 67-73., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1225794 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S.; Samimi-Namin, K. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Madracis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135125 on 2026-07-11

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Madracis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135125 on 2026-07-11

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Cairns, Stephen

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Hoeksema, Bert

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Hoeksema, Bert

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2022-06-16 08:36:54Z

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original description Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Mémoire sur les Polypes appartenant à la famille des Oculinides, au groupe intermédiaire des Pseudastréides et à la famille des Fongides. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris. 29: 67-73., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1225794 [details]

taxonomy source Neves, E. & Johnsson, R. 2009. Taxonomic revision of the southwestern Atlantic Madracis and the description of Madracis fragilis n. sp. (Scleractinia: Pocilloporidae), a new coral species from Brazil. Scientia Marina 73: 739-746. , available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2009.73n4735 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers. [details]

additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1976). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia. Part I. Families Thamnasteriidae, Astroceoniidae, Pocilloporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series. 1: 1-86. [details] Available for editors

additional source Cairns, S.D. & N.B. Keller. (1993). New taxa and distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the tropical south-west Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology. Annals of the South African Museum. 103(5): 213-292, 13 pls.
page(s): 218, 228-229, 238 [details] Available for editors

additional source Cairns, S.D. (1994). Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 557: 1-150., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.557.i
page(s): 36-37, Plate 13c-f [details] Available for editors

additional source Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. Micronesica. 35-36: 121-137.
page(s): 127 [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D. & H. Zibrowius. (1997). Cnidaria Anthozoa: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian regions. in: Crosnier, A. et al. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 16. Campagne Franco-Indonésienne KARUBAR. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 172: 27-244. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 32, 33, 35, 39, 60, 67-68, 209, fig. 1 e-f [details] Available for editors

additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia. [details]

additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1980). Caribbean Shallow Water Corallimorpharia. Zoologische Verhandelingen, (176): 83 pp.
page(s): 68 [details]

additional source Goffredo, S.; Radetić, J.; Airi, V.; Zaccanti, F. (2005). Sexual reproduction of the solitary sunset cup coral Leptopsammia pruvoti (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) in the Mediterranean. 1. Morphological aspects of the gametogenesis and ontogenesis. Marine Biology, 147, 485-495, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-005-1567-z
page(s): 491 [details]

additional source Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 260(I): 385-486., available online at https://doi.org/10.3133/pp260i
page(s): 390, 414 [details]

additional source Reed, J. K. (1985). Deepest distribution of Atlantic hermatypic corals discovered in the Bahamas. Proceedings of the Fifth International Coral Reef Congress, 6, 249-254
page(s): 251-252 [details]

additional source Pillai CSG. (1983). Structure and generic diversity of recent Scleractinia of India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India. 25, 1-2, 78-90.
page(s): 84 [details]

additional source Lasker, H. R. (1983). Vegetative reproduction in the octocoral Briareum asbestinum (Pallas). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 72, 157-169, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0981(83)90141-7
page(s): 163 [details]

additional source Lasker, H. R.; Coffroth, M. (1983). Octocoral distributions at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 13, 21-28, available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps013021
page(s): 22 [details]

additional source Smith FGW. (1954). Gulf of Mexico Madreporaria. Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.). 55, 291-295.
page(s): 294 [details]

additional source Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
page(s): 701 [details]

additional source Cairns, S. D. (1991). A Revision of the Ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 504; 44 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.504
page(s): 6, Plates 1b-e, 11g [details] Available for editors

additional source Haime, J.; Milne Edwards, H. In: Milne Edwards, H. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details]

additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details]

additional source Durham JW, Barnard JL (1952) Stony corals of the Eastern Pacific collected by the Velero III and Velero IV. Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition 16: 1-110, pls. 1-16.
page(s): 11, 15, Plate 1, fig. 1 [details] Available for editors

additional source Durham JW. (1962). Corals from the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series. 32 (2): 41-56.
page(s): 44, 46 [details]

redescription Cairns, S.D. (2000). A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Studies on the Natural History of the Caribbean Region. 75: 1-231. [details] Available for editors