Species Paragoniastrea russelli (Wells, 1954)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Plesiastrea russelli Wells, J.W. 1954. Recent corals of the Marshall Islands. Bikini and nearby atolls, Part 2, Oceanography. Professional Paper. U.S. Geological Survey 260: 385-486 [460].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 45004 dry specimen, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, USA.

 

Generic Combinations

• Favites russelli (Wells, 1954). —
  Veron, J.E.N., Pichon, M. & Wijsman-Best, M. 1977. Scleractinia of eastern Australia. Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Monograph Series 3: 1-233 [72]
• Paragoniastrea russelli (Wells, 1954). —
  Huang, D., Benzoni, F., Arrigoni, R., Baird, A.H., Berumen, M.L., Bouwmeester, J., Chou, L.M., Fukami, H., Licuanan, W.Y., Lovell, E.R., Meier, R., Todd, P.A. & Budd, A.F. 2014. Towards a phylogenetic classification of reef corals: the Indo-Pacific genera Merulina, Goniastrea and Scapophyllia (Scleractinia, Merulinidae). Zoologica Scripta 43: 531–548 [542]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Marshall Islands, New Caledonia, Indonesia and Great Barrier Reef (Veron et al. 1977)

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), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
19-Oct-2024	HEXACORALLIA Haeckel, 1896	19-Oct-2024	MOVED
	SCLERACTINIA Bourne, 1900	12-May-2017	ADDED	Dr Zoe Richards