Genus Echinopora Lamarck, 1816

Museums

Regional Maps

• Echinopora Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Paris : Verdière Vol. 2 568 pp. [252].

  Type species:

   Echinopora rosularia Lamarck, 1816 (= Madrepora lamellose Esper, 1795) by original designation.
• Echinastraea 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). [343].

  Type species:

   Echinopora rosularia Lamarck, 1816 (= Madrepora lamellose Esper, 1795) by original designation.
• Stephanocora Ehrenberg, G.G. 1834. Beitrage zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im Allgemeinen und besanders des Rothen Meeres nebst, einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. Abhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin 1832(1): 225–380 [300].

  Type species:

   Stephanocora hemprichii Ehrenberg, 1834 (= Explanaria gemmacea Lamarck, 1816) by original designation.
• Heliastraea Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1857. Histoire Naturelle des Coralliaires ou Polypes Proprement Dits. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. T. 2 633 pp. [456].

  Type species:

   Madrepora astroites Forsskål, 1775 (= Astrea forskaliana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) by original designation.
• Acanthopora Verrill, A.E. 1864. List of the polyps and corals sent by the Museum of Comparative Zoology to other institutions in exchange, with annotations. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 1: 29-60 [54].

  Type species:

   Echinopora horrida Dana, 1846 by original designation.
• Acanthelia Wells, J.W. 1937. New genera of Mesozoic and Cenozoic corals. Journal of Paleontology 11: 73–77 [73].

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 [310]

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), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes