Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Hexacorallia > Order Scleractinia > Family Astrocoeniidae

Madracis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Madracis asperula Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
Madracis pharensis (Heller, 1868)
Madracis profunda Zibrowius, 1980

Literature

original description	Milne Edwards H. & Haime, J. 1849. Mémoire sur les polypiers appartenant a la famille des Oculinides, au groupe intermediate des Pseudoastréides et a la famille des Fongides. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences 29: 67-73.
basis of record	Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110
additional source	Nomenclator Zoologicus
additional source	Milne Edwards H (1857) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2: 1-631. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris.
additional source	Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London.
additional source	Veron, J.E.N. 2000. Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.
redescription	Cairns, S.D., 2000. A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Stud. Nat. Hist. Carib. Reg. 75: 321 pp., 215 figs.

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Citation

Hoeksema, B.; Cairns, S. (2014). Madracis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135125