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Acropora cytherea

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae

Taxonomy
Madrepora cytherea was named by Dana (1846). It is extant.

It was recombined as Acropora cytherea by Inskipp et al. (2005).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Madrepora cytherea Dana
2005Acropora cytherea Inskipp et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
Hexacorallia()
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
RankNameAuthor
suborderAstrocoeniinaVaughan and Wells 1943
familyAcroporidaeVerrill 1902
genusAcroporaOken 1815
speciescytherea(Dana 1846)

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.

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Diagnosis
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