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Budd, A. in prep., Astroites Walch, 1775, p.42. In: Cairns, S. D., Baron-Szabo, R., Budd, A.F., Lathuilière, B., Roniewicz, E., Stolarski, J., and Johnson, K.G. (eds.), Corallosphere, world wide web site at http://corallosphere.org/taxon/133, last visited on 22 May 2012.
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Astroites

Walch, 1775, p.42

Astroites Walch, 1775, p.42 is junior synonym (available and invalid), see Montastraea Blainville, 1830, p.339.

Type Species

Madrepora denticularis Walch, 1775, p.45; Subsequent Designation Wells, 1986

Type Specimen: Unknown; ; Lost; Unknown

Walch (1775) indicates that M. denticularis is equivalent to Madrepora astroites Pallas 1776, #188, p.320. Both M. denticularis and M. astroites are based on Seba 1758, vol. 3, pl. 112, fig. 15, 19, 22. The specimens figured in Seba 1758 are lost.

Synonyms

This page has been in preparation since 18-Jul-2010 20:22

This version was contributed by Ann Budd on 26-Apr-2012 18:02.

Page authors are: Ann Budd. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.

The editor is: Ann Budd

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