Genus Leptoseris Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

Museums

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• Leptoseris Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1849. Memoire sur les polypiers appartenant a la famille des Oculinides, au groupe intermédiaire des Pseudoastreides et a la famille des Fongides. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 29: 67-73 [72].

  Type species:

   Leptoseris fragilis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 (type in Paris Museum presumably lost) by original designation.
• Haloseris Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1849. Memoire sur les polypiers appartenant a la famille des Oculinides, au groupe intermédiaire des Pseudoastreides et a la famille des Fongides. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 29: 67-73 [junior homonym].

  Type species:

   Haloseris lactuca Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 by monotypy.
• Cylloseris 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. [124] [junior homonym].

  Type species:

   Cylloseris incrustans Quelch, 1886 by monotypy.
• Domoseris 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. [125] [junior homonym].

  Type species:

   Domoseris solida Quelch, 1886 by subsequent designation, see Dinesen, Z.D. 1980. A revision of the coral genus Leptoseris (Scleractinia: Fungina: Agariciidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20: 182–235 [186].
• Folioseris Rehberg, H. 1892. Neue und wenig bekannte Korallen. Abhandlungen Naturwissenschaftliche Verein zu Hamburg 12: 1-50 [junior homonym].

  Type species:

   Agaricia crispa Ehrenberg, 1834 by subsequent designation, see Dinesen, Z.D. 1980. A revision of the coral genus Leptoseris (Scleractinia: Fungina: Agariciidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20: 182–235 [186].
• Agariciella Ma, T.Y. 1937. On the growth rate of reef corals and its relation to sea water temperature. Paleontologia Sinica B16(1): 1–226 [149] [junior homonym; as subgenus of Agaricia].

  Type species:

   Agaricia (Agariciella) minikoiensis Gardiner, 1905 (= Leptoseris mycetoseroides Wells, 1954, misidentified by Ma as Agaricia (Agariciella) mycetoseroides Gardiner, 1905) by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Vaughan, T.W. & Wells, J.W. 1943. Revision of the sub-orders, families and genera of the Scleractinia. Geological Society of America Special Papers 44: 1-363 [125]
• Dinesen, Z.D. 1980. A revision of the coral genus Leptoseris (Scleractinia: Fungina: Agariciidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20: 182–235 [185]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

General References

Carlgren, O. 1901. Die Brutpflege der Actiniarian. Biologisches Centralblatt (Leipzig) 21: 468–484 (Dinesen , 1980 :Source Reference)

Dinesen, Z.D. 1980. A revision of the coral genus Leptoseris (Scleractinia: Fungina: Agariciidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20: 182–235

Kitahara, M.V., Stolarski, J., Cairns, S.D., Benzoni, F., Stake, J.L., Miller, D.J. 2012. The first modern solitary Agariciidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) revealed by molecular and microstructural analysis. Invertebrate Systematics 26: 303-315

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