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Leptoseris Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

206048 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206048)

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  1. Species Leptoseris alternans Gerth, 1923 †
  2. Species Leptoseris amitoriensis Veron, 1990
  3. Species Leptoseris antiqua Reuss, 1869 †
  4. Species Leptoseris cailleti (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
  5. Species Leptoseris densicostata Gerth, 1933 †
  6. Species Leptoseris explanata Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941
  7. Species Leptoseris foliosa Dinesen, 1980
  8. Species Leptoseris fragilis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
  9. Species Leptoseris gardineri van der Horst, 1921
  10. Species Leptoseris glabra Dinesen, 1980
  11. Species Leptoseris haouraensis Chevalier, 1961 †
  12. Species Leptoseris hawaiiensis Vaughan, 1907
  13. Species Leptoseris incrustans (Quelch, 1886)
  14. Species Leptoseris kalayaanensis Licuanan & Alino, 2009
  15. Species Leptoseris mycetoseroides Wells, 1954
  16. Species Leptoseris papyracea (Dana, 1846)
  17. Species Leptoseris phylloides (Felix, 1921) †
  18. Species Leptoseris portoricensis Vaughan, 1919 †
  19. Species Leptoseris raristella Oppenheim, 1901 †
  20. Species Leptoseris santaciliaensis Altuna, Alvarez-Perez, Busquets & Etayo, 2007 †
  21. Species Leptoseris scabra Vaughan, 1907
  22. Species Leptoseris solida (Quelch, 1886)
  23. Species Leptoseris speciosa Felix, 1921 †
  24. Species Leptoseris striata Fenner & Veron, 2000
  25. Species Leptoseris troglodyta Hoeksema, 2012
  26. Species Leptoseris tubulifera Vaughan, 1907
  27. Species Leptoseris undata Prever, 1821 †
  28. Species Leptoseris walli Vaughan, 1926 †
  29. Species Leptoseris yabei (Pillai & Scheer, 1976)
  30. Species Leptoseris incrustans Gardiner, 1905 accepted as Leptoseris hawaiiensis Vaughan, 1907 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, homonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
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. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 29: 67-73., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1225794 [details] 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Leptoseris Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206048 on 2026-09-01
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Leptoseris Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206048 on 2026-09-01
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1997-02-03 14:17:27Z
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2000-07-18 15:57:33Z
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Martinez, Olga
2013-02-05 17:27:31Z
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2014-06-02 12:39:27Z
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2015-03-11 13:24:21Z
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2018-08-12 08:36:09Z
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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. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 29: 67-73., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1225794 [details] 

basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details] 

additional source Bassett-Smith, P.W. (1890). Report on the corals from Tizard and Macclesfield Banks, China Sea. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History,.</em> 6(35): 353-374, 443-458, pls. 12-14., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939008694050
page(s): 359, 447 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Chevalier J-P. (1961). Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale. <em>Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France, Nouvelle Série.</em> 40(93): 1-562, pls. 1-26. [details] 

additional source DeFelice, R.; Minton, D.; Godwin, L. S. (2002). Records of Shallow-Water Marine Invertebrates from French Frigate Shoals, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, with a Note on Noningenous Species: Report to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Hawaii., pp. 78.
page(s): 51 [details] 

additional source Dinesen, Z. D. (1980). A revision of the coral genus <i>Leptoseris</i> (Scleractinia: Fungina: Agariciidae). <em>Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.</em> 20: 182-235. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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] OpenAccess publication

additional source Kitahara, M.V., J. Stolarski, S.D. Cairns, F. Benzoni, J.L. Stake & D.J. Miller. (2012). The first modern solitary Agariciidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) revealed by molecular and microstructural analysis. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 26 (3): 303-315., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is11053 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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 Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. <em>Micronesica.</em> 35-36: 121-137.
page(s): 130 [details] 

additional source Reed, J. K.; Pomponi, S. A.; Weaver, D. C.; Paull, C. K.; Wright, A. E. (2005). Deep-water sinkholes and bioherms of south Florida and the Pourtalès Terrace - habitat and fauna. Bulletin of Marine Science, 77(2): 267-296
page(s): 270 [details] 

additional source Sheppard, C. R. C.; Sheppard, A. L. S. (1985). The central Red Sea at Yanbu al Sinaiyah. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 17-36
page(s): 27, 28 [details] 

additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1980). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part III. Family Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectinidae, Caryophyllidae, Dendrophylliidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 4: 1-459., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60646 [details] 

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