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Pontebbastraea pontebbanae

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Protoheterastraeidae

Taxonomy
Stylophyllopsis pontebbanae was named by Volz (1896). Its type locality is Stuores, Italy, which is in a Carnian shallow subtidal marl in the Cassian Formation of Italy. It is the type species of Pontebbastraea.

It was recombined as Pontebbastraea pontebbanae by Roniewicz and Michalik (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Pontebbastraea pontebbanae Roniewicz and Michalik

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
Hexacorallia()
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
RankNameAuthor
suborderCaryophylliina(Vaughan and Wells 1943)
familyProtoheterastraeidaeCuif 1977
genusPontebbastraea
speciespontebbanae(Volz 1896)

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
No diagnoses are available