Cyphastrea serailia (Forskål, 1775)

Authority reference(s):

Forskål, P. (1775). Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; que in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia medica kahirina atque tabula maris Rubri geographica. 134pp. (For species details see p. 135)

Taxonomic note: A species complex

Taxonomic reference(s):

Chevalier, J.P. (1975). Les scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française. II Expédition Française sur les récifs coralliens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Paris: Singer-Polignac. 407pp.

Veron, J.E.N., Pichon, M. and Wijsman-Best, M. (1977). Scleractinia of eastern Australia. Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. (Townsville, Australia: Australian Institute of Marine Science), 3:1-233.

Wijsman-Best, M. (1980). Indo-pacific coral species belonging to the subfamily Montastreinae Vaughan & Wells, 1943 (Scleractinea-Coelenterata): Part II. The genera Cyphastrea, Leptastrea, Echinopora and Diploastrea. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 55(21):235-263.

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.