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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Cnidaria (phylum)  »  Anthozoa (class)  »  Scleractinia (order)  »  Lobophylliidae (family)

CAAB Code:	11 307002 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Acanthastrea brevis   Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies Family: 11 307 Lobophylliidae (hard corals) - show full list Common Name: [a stony coral] Organism Type: a stony coral Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 11 307901     Acanthastrea spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species has been considered to be a synonym of Acanthastrea echinata, but here we follow Huang et al, 2016, and recognise them as distinct species.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:8d8aa0e1-2fa5-4ff7-9500-06f978a27b1e Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:430639 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2021-11-21 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Veron, J. E. H., 2000 Veron, J. E. H., Corals of the World. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Qld. 3 Vols.
Scientific Name verified against:	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, Vol. 178: 436-481. . doi:10.1111/zoj.12391 doi:10.1111/zoj.12391