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Frechastraea pentagona

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae

Taxonomy
Cyathophyllum pentagonum was named by Goldfuss (1826). It is the type species of Frechastraea.

It was recombined as Favastrea pentagona by de Blainville (1830); it was recombined as Astrea pentagona by Lonsdale (1840) and Phillips (1841); it was recombined as Acervularia pentagona by Michelin (1845), Edwards and Haime (1851), McCoy (1851), Meek (1877), Walcott (1884); it was recombined as Lithostrotion pentagonum by d'Orbigny (1850); it was recombined as Frechastraea pentagona by Brownlaw and Jell (2008), Eichholt et al. (2021).

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by M. Krause (authorized by W. Kiessling) on 2021-08-05

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1826Cyathophyllum pentagonum Goldfuss
1830Favastrea pentagona de Blainville p. 340
1840Astrea pentagona Lonsdale figs. Pl. 57, fig. 1
1841Astrea pentagona Phillips figs. Pl. 6, fig. 15
1845Acervularia pentagona Michelin p. 180 figs. Pl. 49, fig. 1
1850Lithostrotion pentagonum d'Orbigny p. 106
1851Acervularia pentagona Edwards and Haime p. 418
1851Acervularia pentagona McCoy p. 19
1877Acervularia pentagona Meek pp. 31 - 32 figs. Plate 2, figs. 5, 5a
1884Acervularia pentagona Walcott p. 105
2008Frechastraea pentagona Brownlaw and Jell p. 99
2021Frechastraea pentagona Eichholt et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
Hexacorallia()
subclassRugosa(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
RankNameAuthor
orderStauriidaVerrill 1865
suborderColumnariinaRominger 1876
familyPhillipsastreidaeHill 1954
genusFrechastraeaScrutton 1968
speciespentagona(Goldfuss 1826)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Frechastraea pentagona Goldfuss 1826
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Diagnosis
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