WoRMS name details
Leptastraea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
1511212 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1511212)
unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Genus
- Species Leptastraea bottai (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) accepted as Leptastrea bottae (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Leptastraea caribaea Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 accepted as Solenastrea bournoni Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Leptastraea ehrenbergana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Leptastraea immersa Klunzinger, 1879 accepted as Leptastrea bottae (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Leptastraea inaequalis Klunzinger, 1879 accepted as Leptastrea inaequalis Klunzinger, 1879 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Species Leptastraea pruinosa Crossland, 1952 accepted as Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Leptastraea pulchra (Dana, 1846) accepted as Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Leptastraea purpurea (Dana, 1846) accepted as Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination, misspelling)
- Species Leptastraea transversa Klunzinger, 1879 accepted as Leptastrea transversa Klunzinger, 1879 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Species Leptastraea humilis Duncan, 1889 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Leptastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 12, 3, 95-197. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Leptastraea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1511212 on 2025-04-03
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Leptastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 12, 3, 95-197. [details]
basis of record 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]
basis of record 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]
Other
additional source
Wijsman-Best M (1977) Indo-Pacific coral species belonging to the subfamily Montastreinae Vaughan and Wells, 1943 (Scleractinia-Coelenterata) Part I. The genera Montastrea and Plesiastrea. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 52: 81-97.
page(s): 84 [details]
page(s): 84 [details]