Species Acropora cerealis (Dana, 1846)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Madrepora cerealis 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.
• Madrepora hystrix 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.
• Madrepora tizardi Brook, G. 1892. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 10: 451–465.
• Madrepora cymbicyathus Brook, G. 1893. Catalogue of Madreporarian corals in the British Museum (Natural History): the genus Madrepora. London : Longmans Green and Co Vol. I 212 pp.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wallace, C.C. 1999. Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral genus Acropora. Collingwood, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing 421 pp.
• Wallace, C.C., Done, B.J. & Muir, P.R. 2012. Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 57: 1–255

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

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

History of changes