Taxon name selected
Barabattoia amicorum (Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848)
Status
Historical generic designation for
Selected taxon name information
Authority reference(s):
Named and illustrated in
Milne Edwards, H. and Haime, J. (1848d). Recherches sur les polypiers; Quatrième mémoire. Monographie des astréides. Annals des Sciences Naturelles 10:209-320. (For species details see p. 320 and Plate 9, Fig. 9)
Full description in
Milne Edwards, H. and Haime, J. (1849b). Recherches sur les polypiers; Quatrième mémoire. Monographie des astréides (1). (Suite.). Annals des Sciences Naturelles 12:95-197. (For species details see p. 171)
Taxonomic note: Considered a species of Barabattoia (= Favia) by many authors and Dipsastraea (= Favia) by Huang, Benzoni, Fukami et al. (2014). See Wijsman-Best (1972, 1974) for previous use of this name
Taxonomic reference(s):
Wijsman-Best, M. (1972). Systematics and ecology of New Caledonian Faviinae (Coelenterata-Scleractinia). Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 42(1):1-76, pls. 1-14.
Veron, J.E.N. and Pichon, M. (1982). Scleractinia of eastern Australia. Part IV. Family Poritidae
. (Townsville, Australia: Australian Institute of Marine Science), 5:1-159.
Veron, J.E.N. (2000a). Corals of the World. Townsville: Australian Institute of Marine Science. Volumes 1-3. 1410pp.
Huang, D., Benzoni, F., Fukami, H., Knowlton, N., Smith, N.D. and Budd, A.F. (2014). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171(2):277-355.
Target taxon name information
Authority reference(s):
Named and illustrated in
Milne Edwards, H. and Haime, J. (1848d). Recherches sur les polypiers; Quatrième mémoire. Monographie des astréides. Annals des Sciences Naturelles 10:209-320. (For species details see p. 320 and Plate 9, Fig. 9)
Full description in
Milne Edwards, H. and Haime, J. (1849b). Recherches sur les polypiers; Quatrième mémoire. Monographie des astréides (1). (Suite.). Annals des Sciences Naturelles 12:95-197. (For species details see p. 171)
Taxonomic note: Considered a species of Barabattoia (= Favia) by many authors and Dipsastraea (= Favia) by Huang, Benzoni, Fukami et al. (2014). See Wijsman-Best (1972, 1974) for previous use of this name
