Genus Montipora de Blainville, 1830

Museums

Regional Maps

• Montipora 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).

  Type species:

   Porites verrucosa Lamarck, 1816 by subsequent designation, see Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1850. A monograph of the British fossil corals. First Part. Introduction; corals from the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations. London : Palaeontological Society i-lxxxv, 322 pp., 72 pls.
• Manopora 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. [489].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), 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), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Veron, J.E.N. & Wallace, C. 1984. Scleractinia of eastern Australia V. Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Monograph Series 6. 1-483 [8]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
19-Oct-2024	HEXACORALLIA Haeckel, 1896	19-Oct-2024	MOVED
05-Aug-2022	SCLERACTINIA Bourne, 1900	06-Feb-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Zoe Richards
05-Aug-2022		13-Aug-2013	MOVED
		13-Jul-2010	MODIFIED