Genus Porites Link, 1807

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Regional Maps

• Porites Link, H.F. 1807. Beschreibung der Naturalien Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Rostock : Alders Erben. [6 parts with no volume description; pp.1-50, 51-100, 101-165, 1-30, 1-38, 1-38].

  Type species:

   Madrepora porites Pallas, 1766 by absolute tautonymy.
• Neoporites Duchassaing De Fombressin, P. & Michelotti, J. 1864. Supplément au Mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. Turin : Imprimerie Royale pp. 1–112, XI pls. [reprint from the Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin/Memorie dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, 1866, ser. 2, vol. 23, pp. 97–206] [97].
• Cosmoporites Duchassaing De Fombressin, P. & Michelotti, J. 1864. Supplément au Mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. Turin : Imprimerie Royale pp. 1–112, XI pls. [reprint from the Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin/Memorie dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, 1866, ser. 2, vol. 23, pp. 97–206] [99].

  Type species:

   Cosmoporites laevigata Duchassaing De Fombressin & Michelotti, 1864 by original designation.
• Synaraea Verrill, 1864.

  Type species:

   Porites erosa Dana, 1846 by original designation.
• Napopora Quelch, J.J. 1886. Report on the reef-corals collected by H.M.S Challenger during the years 1873-76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 16(3): 1-203, I-XII pls.

  Type species:

   Napopora irregularis Quelch, 1886 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Potts, D.C. 1995. Porites Link, 1807, Galaxea Oken, 1815, Mussa Oken, 1815 and Dendrophyllia Blainville, 1830 (Anthozoa, Scleractinia): proposed conservation. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 52: 142-147
• ICZN 2004. Opinion 2601 (Case 2900). Porites Link, 1807, Galaxea Oken, 1815, Mussa Oken, 1815 and Dendrophyllia Blainville, 1830 (Anthozoa, Scleractinia): generic names conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 61(1): 51–53

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