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Isastrea orbignyi

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae

Taxonomy

Isastrea orbignyi was named by Chapuis and Dewalque (1853). It is a 3D body fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

I. alfurica, I. ampezzana, I. boehmi, I. chilensis, I. davidsoni, I. geometrica, I. globosa, I. guembeli, I. guembeli, I. guembeli, I. heliantoides, I. hemispherica, I. michelottina, I. microphylla, I. murchisoni, I. phillipsi, I. phillipsis, I. seranica

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1857	Isastraea orbignyi Milne-Edwards figs. pl. 38 fig. 7
1861	Isastraea orbignyi de Fromentel p. 229

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
phylum	Cnidaria	Hatschek 1888
class	Anthozoa	Ehrenberg 1834
—	Hexacorallia	()
order	Scleractinia	Bourne 1900

Rank	Name	Author
suborder	Faviina	Vaughan and Wells 1943
superfamily	Faviicae	Gregory 1900
family	Montlivaltiidae	Felix 1900
genus	Isastrea	(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
species	orbignyi	Chapuis and Dewalque 1853

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.

†Isastrea orbignyi Chapuis and Dewalque 1853

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available