Species Dipsastraea speciosa (Dana, 1846)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Astraea speciosa Dana, J.D. 1846. Zoophytes. United States exploring expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. New York : Greenwood Press Vol. 7 pp. i-vi + 740. [220].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 00037 dry specimen, ‘East Indies'.

Generic Combinations

• Dipsastraea speciosa (Dana, 1846). —
  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 [518]
• Favia speciosa (Dana, 1846). —
  Vaughan, T.W. 1918. Some shoal-water corals from Murray Islands, Cocos Keeling Islands and Fanning Islands. Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 9(Publ. 213): 51-234, pls 20-93

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)

Distribution References

History of changes