Scleractinia name details

Blastomussa (Blastomussa) Wells, 1968

766081  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:766081)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Vacatina (Suborder)
  8. Plerogyridae (Family)
  9. Blastomussa (Genus)
  10. Blastomussa (Blastomussa) (Subgenus)
 unaccepted > junior objective synonym
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  1. Species Blastomussa (Blastomussa) merleti (Wells, 1961) accepted as Blastomussa merleti (Wells, 1961) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  2. Species Blastomussa (Blastomussa) wellsi Wijsman-Best, 1973 accepted as Blastomussa wellsi Wijsman-Best, 1973 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Blastomussa Wells, 1968) Wells JW. (1968). Notes on Indo-Pacific scleractinian corals. Part 5, A new species of Alveopora from New Caledonia. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 22: 274-275., available online at https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/6828/v22n2-274-276.pdf
page(s): 276 [details] OpenAccess publication
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Blastomussa (Blastomussa) Wells, 1968. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=766081 on 2025-03-29
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original description (of Blastomussa Wells, 1968) Wells JW. (1968). Notes on Indo-Pacific scleractinian corals. Part 5, A new species of Alveopora from New Caledonia. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 22: 274-275., available online at https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/6828/v22n2-274-276.pdf
page(s): 276 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Head, S.M. 1978. A cerioid species of Blastomussa (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) from the central Red Sea, with a revision of the genus. Journal of Natural History 12: 633-639. [details] 

additional source Benzoni F, Arrigoni R, Waheed Z, Stefani F, Hoeksema BW (2014) Phylogenetic relationships and revision of the genus Blastomussa (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) with description of a new species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62: 358-378. [details] 

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