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Scleractinia taxon details

Madracis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

135125  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135125)

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Axhelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Axohelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (misspelling)
Pentalophora Saville Kent, 1871 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Promadracis Reig Oriol, 1997 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Reussia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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  1. Species Madracis asanoi Yabe & Sugiyama, 1936
  2. Species Madracis asperula Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
  3. Species Madracis auretenra Locke, Weil & Coates, 2007
  4. Species Madracis brueggemanni (Ridley, 1881)
  5. Species Madracis calzadai Reig Oriol, 1988 †
  6. Species Madracis carmabi Vermeij, Diekmann & Bak, 2003
  7. Species Madracis crescentensis Durham, 1942 †
  8. Species Madracis decactis (Lyman, 1859)
  9. Species Madracis decaphylla Chevalier, 1961 †
  10. Species Madracis densa Budd, 1992 †
  11. Species Madracis dodecachora Squires, 1958 †
  12. Species Madracis duncani Wells, 1945 †
  13. Species Madracis formosa Wells, 1973
  14. Species Madracis fragilis Neves & Johnsson, 2009
  15. Species Madracis ganei Vaughan, 1900 †
  16. Species Madracis gregorioi Vaughan, 1900 †
  17. Species Madracis hellana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850
  18. Species Madracis herrecki Wells, 1934 †
  19. Species Madracis interjecta Marenzeller, 1907
  20. Species Madracis johnsoni Vaughan, 1900 †
  21. Species Madracis johnwellsi Frost & Langenheim, 1974 †
  22. Species Madracis kauaiensis Vaughan, 1907
  23. Species Madracis kirbyi Veron & Pichon, 1976
  24. Species Madracis myriaster (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850)
  25. Species Madracis ornata (Michelotti, 1838) †
  26. Species Madracis ornata (Michelloti, 1838) †
  27. Species Madracis pharensis (Heller, 1868)
  28. Species Madracis profunda Zibrowius, 1980
  29. Species Madracis pulchella Chevalier, 1961 †
  30. Species Madracis senaria Wells, 1973
  31. Species Madracis stewarti Durham, 1942 †
  32. Species Madracis vaughani Wells, 1941 †
  33. Species Madracis luciphila Wells, 1973 accepted as Madracis pharensis (Heller, 1868) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  34. Species Madracis mirabilis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Madracis myriaster (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  35. Species Madracis mirabilis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) sensu Wells, 1973 accepted as Madracis auretenra Locke, Weil & Coates, 2007 (unaccepted > misapplication)
  36. Species Madracis ormosa Wells., 1973 accepted as Madracis formosa Wells, 1973 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
  37. Species Madracis palaoensis Yabe & Sugiyama, 1936 accepted as Madracis asanoi Yabe & Sugiyama, 1936 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  38. Species Madracis schrammii (Pourtalès, 1874) accepted as Madracis myriaster (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  39. Species Madracis scotiae Gardiner, 1913 accepted as Madracis brueggemanni (Ridley, 1881) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  40. Species Madracis singularis Rehberg, 1892 accepted as Madracis kauaiensis Vaughan, 1907 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  41. Species Madracis whitei Fernandes, 1984 † accepted as Actinastrea dickersoni (Wells, 1941) † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
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Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Mémoire sur les Polypes appartenant à la famille des Oculinides, au groupe intermédiaire des Pseudastréides et à la famille des Fongides. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 29: 67-73., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1225794 [details]   
Note Type species: Madracis asperula Edwards &...  
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Type species Type species: Madracis asperula Edwards & Haime, 1890 from Madeira (Veron, 1986). [details]
Depth range 0-1220 m  
Depth range 0-1220 m [details]

Fossil range Upper Cretaceous to Recent  
Fossil range Upper Cretaceous to Recent [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Madracis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135125 on 2024-05-10
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2006-09-22 06:50:38Z
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2010-09-15 23:16:22Z
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original description Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Mémoire sur les Polypes appartenant à la famille des Oculinides, au groupe intermédiaire des Pseudastréides et à la famille des Fongides. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 29: 67-73., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1225794 [details]   

original description  (of Axhelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Mémoire sur les Polypes appartenant à la famille des Oculinides, au groupe intermédiaire des Pseudastréides et à la famille des Fongides. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 29: 67-73., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1225794 [details]   

original description  (of Reussia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1860). Mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin, séries 2.</em> 19: 279-365, pls 1-10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12140332 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Pentalophora Saville Kent, 1871) Saville Kent W. (1871). On some new and little-known species of madrepores, or stony corals, in the British Museum Collection. <em>Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1871.</em> 275-286, pls. 23-25. [details]   

original description  (of Promadracis Reig Oriol, 1997 †) Reig Oriol, J. M. (1997). Generos y especies nuevas de Madreporarios cretacicos. <em>Barcelona, Self-published,.</em> 45 pp., 5 pls. [details]   

taxonomy source Neves, E. & Johnsson, R. 2009. Taxonomic revision of the southwestern Atlantic Madracis and the description of Madracis fragilis n. sp. (Scleractinia: Pocilloporidae), a new coral species from Brazil. Scientia Marina 73: 739-746. , available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2009.73n4735 [details]   

basis of record Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]   

additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em>  [details]   

additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1976). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia. Part I. Families Thamnasteriidae, Astroceoniidae, Pocilloporidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 1: 1-86. [details]   

additional source Cairns, S.D. & N.B. Keller. (1993). New taxa and distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the tropical south-west Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 103(5): 213-292, 13 pls.
page(s): 218, 228-229, 238 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

additional source Cairns, S.D. (1994). Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 557: 1-150.
page(s): 36-37, Plate 13c-f [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

additional source Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. <em>Micronesica.</em> 35-36: 121-137.
page(s): 127 [details]   

additional source Cairns, S.D. & H. Zibrowius. (1997). Cnidaria Anthozoa: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian regions. <em>in: Crosnier, A. et al. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 16. Campagne Franco-Indonésienne KARUBAR. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie.</em> 172: 27-244. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 32, 33, 35, 39, 60, 67-68, 209, fig. 1 e-f [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em>  [details]   

additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1980). Caribbean Shallow Water Corallimorpharia. Zoologische Verhandelingen, (176): 83 pp.
page(s): 68 [details]   

additional source Goffredo, S.; Radetić, J.; Airi, V.; Zaccanti, F. (2005). Sexual reproduction of the solitary sunset cup coral Leptopsammia pruvoti (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) in the Mediterranean. 1. Morphological aspects of the gametogenesis and ontogenesis. Marine Biology, 147, 485-495
page(s): 491 [details]   

additional source Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). <em>U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 260(I): 385-486.
page(s): 390, 414 [details]   

additional source Reed, J. K. (1985). Deepest distribution of Atlantic hermatypic corals discovered in the Bahamas. Proceedings of the Fifth International Coral Reef Congress, 6, 249-254
page(s): 251-252 [details]   

additional source Pillai CSG. (1983). Structure and generic diversity of recent Scleractinia of India. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 25, 1-2, 78-90.
page(s): 84 [details]   

additional source Lasker, H. R. (1983). Vegetative reproduction in the octocoral Briareum asbestinum (Pallas). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 72, 157-169
page(s): 163 [details]   

additional source Lasker, H. R.; Coffroth, M. (1983). Octocoral distributions at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 13, 21-28
page(s): 22 [details]   

additional source Smith FGW. (1954). Gulf of Mexico Madreporaria. <em>Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.).</em> 55, 291-295.
page(s): 294 [details]   

additional source Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
page(s): 701 [details]   

additional source Cairns, S. D. (1991). A Revision of the Ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 504; 44 pp.
page(s): 6, Plates 1b-e, 11g [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

additional source Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details]   

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 Durham JW, Barnard JL (1952) Stony corals of the Eastern Pacific collected by the Velero III and Velero IV. Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition 16: 1-110, pls. 1-16.
page(s): 11, 15, Plate 1, fig. 1 [details]   

additional source Durham JW. (1962). Corals from the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series.</em> 32 (2): 41-56.
page(s): 44, 46 [details]   

redescription Cairns, S.D. (2000). A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. <em>Studies on the Natural History of the Caribbean Region.</em> 75: 1-231. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 
 
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Nontype AHF 2.1 [details]
Nontype AHF 2.1 [details]
Nontype AHF 2.2, geounit Colombian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype CAS 66645, geounit Ecuadorean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype MNHN, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype POLIPI, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype SIO, geounit High Seas [details]
Nontype USNM 84775, geounit Ecuadorean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype USNM 91498, geounit Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype USNM 91499, geounit Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype USNM 96679, geounit Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype USNM 96680, geounit Taiwanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype USNM 96681, geounit Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype USNM 96684, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMUC, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type USNM 88378, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
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Biology Zooxanthellate and azooxaxnthellate [details]

Depth range 0-1220 m [details]

Fossil range Upper Cretaceous to Recent [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Type species Type species: Madracis asperula Edwards & Haime, 1890 from Madeira (Veron, 1986). [details]
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