UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Astrangia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

URMO taxon details

Astrangia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Astrangia poculata, neotype colony

AphiaID

135126 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135126)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Astrangiidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857

Parent

Astrangiidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857

Original name

Astrangia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Direct children (15)

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Species Astrangia atrata (Dennant, 1906)
Species Astrangia browni Palmer, 1928
Species Astrangia californica Durham & Barnard, 1952
Species Astrangia conferta Verrill, 1870
Species Astrangia costata Verrill, 1866
Species Astrangia dentata Verrill, 1866
Species Astrangia equatorialis Durham & Barnard, 1952
Species Astrangia haimei Verrill, 1866
Species Astrangia howardi Durham & Barnard, 1952
Species Astrangia macrodentata Thiel, 1940
Species Astrangia mercatoris Thiel, 1941
Species Astrangia poculata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
Species Astrangia rathbuni Vaughan, 1906
Species Astrangia solitaria (Le Sueur, 1817)
Species Astrangia woodsi Wells, 1955

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Observations sur les Polypiers de la famille des Astr�ides. Comptes Rendus de l'Acad�mie Des Sciences, Paris. 27: 465�470. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Astrangia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135126 on 2025-09-11

Thematic species database citation

Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Astrangia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135126 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2006-09-06 06:55:51Z

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Martinez, Olga

2010-09-08 12:59:53Z

checked

Cairns, Stephen

2018-08-06 09:40:19Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2019-05-21 13:53:54Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-02-18 08:41:25Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-05-23 14:47:23Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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original description Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Observations sur les Polypiers de la famille des Astr�ides. Comptes Rendus de l'Acad�mie Des Sciences, Paris. 27: 465�470. [details]

taxonomy source L�ser H, Angel Fern�ndez-Mendiola P, P�rez-Malo J, Dom�nguez Pascual S, Cahuzac B. (2021). Redefinition of the family Rhizangiidae (Scleractinia; Cretaceous to Recent) and description of a new genus from the Early Cretaceous of Spain. Neues Jahrbuch f�r Geologie und Pal�ontologie - Abhandlungen. 299(3): 259-274., available online at https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2021/0968 [details]

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, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , 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 Cairns, S.D., V. H�ussermann & G. F�rsterra. (2005). A review of the Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Chile, with the description of two new species. Zootaxa. 1018: 15-46., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1018.1.2
page(s): 16-17, 20-21 [details] Available for editors

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 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. Invertebrate Systematics. 26 (3): 303-315., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is11053
page(s): 306, 307 [details] Available for editors

additional source Hubbard, R. H.; Wells, J. W. (1986). Ahermatypic shallow-water scleractinian corals of Trinidad. Studies on the Fauna of Cura�ao and other Caribbean Islands, 68(211): 121-144
page(s): 128, Figure 8, 9 (USNM 68466) [details]

additional source Brugler, M. R.; France, S. C. (2007). The complete mitochondrial genome of the black coral Chrysopathes formosa (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia) supports classification of antipatharians within the subclass Hexacorallia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 42, 776-788
page(s): 778, 779, 781, 782 [details]

additional source Medina, M.; Collins, A. G.; Takaoka, T. L.; Kuehl, J. V.; Boore, J. L. (2006). Naked corals: skeleton loss in Scleractinia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103(24): 9096-9100
page(s): 9097, 9099 [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 K�hlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Th�ringen) nebst �kologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolst�dter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
page(s): 63, 95, 113 [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