Genus Lobophyllia de Blainville, 1830

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lobophyllia 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). [321].

  Type species:

   Madrepora corymbosa Forsskål, 1775 by subsequent designation, see Matthai, G. 1928. Catalogue of madreporarian corals in the British Museum (Natural History): A monograph of the recent meandroid Astraeidae. London : Longmans Green and Co Vol. VII 288 pp. [210].
• Symphyllia Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1848. Observations sur les polypiers de la famille des Astreides. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 27: 465-470 [491].

  Type species:

   Meandrina sinuosa Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 by original designation.
• Palauphyllia Yabe, H., Sugiyama, T. & Eguchi, M. 1936. Recent reef building corals from Japan and the south sea islands under the Japanese mandate. Science Reports of the Tôhoku University, 2nd series (Geology) 1: 1-66 [44].

  Type species:

   Lobophyllia hataii Yabe, Sugiyama & Eguchi, 1936 by original designation.
• Parascolymia Wells, J.W. 1964. The recent solitary mussid scleractinian corals. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 39: 375-384 [379] [junior homonym].

  Type species:

   Scolymia vitiensis Brüggemann, 1877 by original designation.
• Australomussa Veron, J.E.N. 1985. New Scleractinia from Australian Coral Reefs. Records of the Western Australian Museum 12(1): 147-183 [171] [junior homonym].

  Type species:

   Australomussa rowleyensis by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Huang, D., Arrigoni, R., Benzoni, F., Fukami, H., Knowlton, N., Smith, N.D., Stolarski, J., Chou, L.M. & Budd, A.F. 2016. Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178: 436–481 [450]

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Christmas Island Province (23), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Veron J.E.N. & Pichon, M. 1980. Scleractinia of Eastern Australia. Part III. Families Agaraciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectiniidae, Caryophylliidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Monograph Series 4: 1-459 (Veron & Pichon , 1979 :Source Reference)

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