UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Lobophyllia costata (Dana, 1846)

Scleractinia taxon details

Lobophyllia costata (Dana, 1846)

AphiaID

207393 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207393)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Lobophyllia de Blainville, 1830

Original name

Mussa costata Dana, 1846

Synonymised names

Lobophyllia costata var. fragilis Chevalier, 1975 · unaccepted (synonymy)

Lobophyllia costata var. superficialis Chevalier, 1975 · unaccepted (synonymy)

Mussa costata Dana, 1846 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (basionym)

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Variety Lobophyllia costata var. brueggemanni (Quelch, 1886) accepted as Lobophyllia hemprichii (Ehrenberg, 1834) (synonymy)
Variety Lobophyllia costata var. cristata (Esper, 1789) accepted as Lobophyllia hemprichii (Ehrenberg, 1834) (synonymy)
Variety Lobophyllia costata var. cytherea (Dana, 1846) accepted as Lobophyllia hemprichii (Ehrenberg, 1834) (synonymy)
Variety Lobophyllia costata var. fragilis Chevalier, 1975 accepted as Lobophyllia costata (Dana, 1846) (synonymy)
Variety Lobophyllia costata var. superficialis Chevalier, 1975 accepted as Lobophyllia costata (Dana, 1846) (synonymy)
Variety Lobophyllia costata var. wellsi Ma, 1859 accepted as Oulophyllia wellsi (Ma, 1959) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Mussa costata Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia. 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Lobophyllia costata (Dana, 1846). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207393 on 2025-05-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-03 14:17:27Z

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Vanden Berghe, Edward

1998-03-30 07:54:21Z

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Fondo, Esther

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

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van der Land, Jacob

2014-07-13 09:51:32Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2016-10-16 10:22:57Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-05-17 05:25:17Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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original description (of Mussa costata Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia. 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details]

original description (of Lobophyllia costata var. fragilis Chevalier, 1975) Chevalier JP. (1975). Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). II. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie. 7: 1-407, pls. 1-42. Paris. [details]

original description (of Lobophyllia costata var. superficialis Chevalier, 1975) Chevalier JP. (1975). Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). II. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie. 7: 1-407, pls. 1-42. Paris. [details]

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. Atoll Research Bulletin. 459: 13-46.
page(s): 35 [details]

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): 134 [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1980). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part III. Family Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectinidae, Caryophyllidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series. 4: 1-459. [details]

additional source Umbgrove JHF. (1940). Madreporaria from the Togian Reefs (Gulf of Tomini, North-Celebes. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. 22: 265-310.
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additional source Umbgrove JHF. (1939). Madreporaria from the Bay of Batavia. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. 22: 1-64.
page(s): 14, 15, 18, 37 [details]

additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T, Eguchi M. (1936). Recent reef-building corals from Japan and the South Sea Islands under the Japanese mandate. I. The Science reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University, Sendai, 2nd Series (Geologie). Special Volume 1: 1-66, pls. 1-59.
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additional source Matthai G. (1928). A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History). 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details] Available for editors

additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan. 42: 379-403.
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additional source Chevalier JP. (1975). Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). II. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie. 7: 1-407, pls. 1-42. Paris. [details]

additional source Nemenzo F (1959) Systematic studies on Philippine shallow water scleractinians: II. Suborder Faviida. Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines 16: 73-135, pls. 1-24.
page(s): 77, 129 [details]

additional source Scheer G (1967). Korallen von den Sarso-Inseln im Roten Meer. Senckenbergiana Biologica 48: 421-436. [details]

additional source Huang D, Arrigoni R, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Stolarski J, Chou LM, Budd AF. (2016). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 178(3): 436-481., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12391 [details]

additional source Pillai CSG. (1972). Stony corals of the seas around India. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Corals and Coral Reefs, 1969. Marine Biological Association of India Symposium. 5: 191-216.
page(s): 209 [details]

additional source Boshoff, P.H. (1981). An annotated checklist of Southern Africa Scleractinia. Oceanographic Research Institute Investigational Report, Durban. 49: 1-45.
page(s): 26 [details]

additional source Randall RH, Myers RF. (1983). The corals. Guide to the Coastal Resources of Guam: Vol. 2. University of Guam Press, Guam, pp. 128. [details]

additional source Maragos, J. E.; Molina, M.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 8]. UNPUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED [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.
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new combination reference Arrigoni R, Terraneo TI, Galli P, Benzoni F (2014) Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) reshuffled: Pervasive . non-monophyly at genus level. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 73: 60-64. [details]