Genus Dipsastraea de Blainville, 1830

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dipsastraea Blainville, H.M.D. de 1830. Zoophytes. In, Levrault, F.G. (ed.). Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans lequel on traitre méthodiquement des differéns êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement a l'utlité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Paris : Le Normat Tome 60 546 pp, 68 pls (+ pp. 547-631). [338].

  Type species:

   Madrepora favus Forsskål, 1775 by subsequent designation, see Wells, J. W. 1936. The nomenclature and type species of some genera of Recent and fossil corals. American Journal of Science 5 31: 97–134 [109].
• Barabattoia Yabe, H. & Sugiyama, T. 1941. Recent reef building corals from Japan and the south sea islands under the Japanese mandate II. Science Reports of the Tôhoku University, 2nd series (Geology) 2: 67-91 [72].

  Type species:

   Barabattoia mirabilis Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941 by original designation.
• Bikiniastrea Wells, J.W. 1954. Recent corals of the Marshall Islands. Bikini and nearby atolls, Part 2, Oceanography. Professional Paper. U.S. Geological Survey 260: 385-486 [456].

  Type species:

   Bikiniastr[e]a laddi Wells, 1954 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Huang, D., Benzoni, F., Fukami, H., Knowlton, N., Smith, N.D. & Budd, A.F. 2014. Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355 [307]

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

General References

Budd, A.F., Fukami, H., Smith, N.D. & Knowlton, N. 2012. Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166(3): 465–529

Huang, D., Benzoni, F., Fukami, H., Knowlton, N., Smith, N.D. & Budd, A.F. 2014. Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355

History of changes