WoRMS taxon details
Sclerophyllia maxima (Sheppard & Salm, 1988)
834701 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:834701)
accepted
Species
Acanthastrea maxima Sheppard & Salm, 1988 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Acanthastrea maxima Sheppard & Salm, 1988) Sheppard CRC, Salm RV. 1988. Reef and coral communities of Oman, with a description of a new coral species (Order Scleractinia, genus Acanthastrea). Journal of Natural History 22: 263-279. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Sclerophyllia maxima (Sheppard & Salm, 1988). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=834701 on 2025-04-17
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Acanthastrea maxima Sheppard & Salm, 1988) Sheppard CRC, Salm RV. 1988. Reef and coral communities of Oman, with a description of a new coral species (Order Scleractinia, genus Acanthastrea). Journal of Natural History 22: 263-279. [details]
new combination reference Arrigoni R, Berumen ML, Terraneo TI, Caragnano A, Bouwmeester J, Benzoni F. (2015). Forgotten in the taxonomic literature: resurrection of the scleractinian coral genus Sclerophyllia (Scleractinia, Lobophylliidae) from the Arabian Peninsula and its phylogenetic relationships. <em>Systematics and Biodiversity 13: 140-163.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2014.978915 [details]
new combination reference Arrigoni R, Berumen ML, Terraneo TI, Caragnano A, Bouwmeester J, Benzoni F. (2015). Forgotten in the taxonomic literature: resurrection of the scleractinian coral genus Sclerophyllia (Scleractinia, Lobophylliidae) from the Arabian Peninsula and its phylogenetic relationships. <em>Systematics and Biodiversity 13: 140-163.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2014.978915 [details]
Other
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). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 178(3): 436-481., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12391 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | starry cup coral [from synonym] | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) (from synonym Acanthastrea maxima Sheppard & Salm, 1988)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Acanthastrea maxima Sheppard & Salm, 1988)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sclerophyllia maxima)
To GenBank (29 nucleotides; 16 proteins) (from synonym Acanthastrea maxima Sheppard & Salm, 1988)
To GenBank (29 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Acanthastrea maxima Sheppard & Salm, 1988)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sclerophyllia maxima)
To GenBank (29 nucleotides; 16 proteins) (from synonym Acanthastrea maxima Sheppard & Salm, 1988)
To GenBank (29 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable)
