MarBEF Data System - ERMS

ERMS taxon details

Octocorallia

AphiaID

1341 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1341)

Classification

Authority

Haeckel, 1866

Status

accepted

Rank

Subclass

Parent

Anthozoa

Synonymised names

Alcyonacea · unaccepted

Gorgonacea · unaccepted

Direct children (6)
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Order Malacalcyonacea
Order Scleralcyonacea

Order Alcyonacea accepted as Octocorallia
Order Gorgonacea accepted as Octocorallia
Order Pennatulacea accepted as Pennatuloidea McFadden, van Ofwegen & Quattrini, 2022

Order Octocorallia incertae sedis (temporary name)

Environment

marine, brackish

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

ERMS (2023). Octocorallia. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1341 on 2023-06-07

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2023). European Register of Marine Species. Octocorallia. Accessed at: https://www.marbef.org/data./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1341 on 2023-06-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2009-05-14 10:34:32Z

changed

Appeltans, Ward

2014-08-06 14:26:01Z

checked

van Ofwegen, Leen

2016-04-22 09:18:44Z

changed

van Ofwegen, Leen

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

[taxonomic tree] [list species]

basis of record Daly, M., M.R. Brugler, P. Cartwright, A.G. Collins, M.N. Dawson, D.G. Fautin, S.C. France, C.S. McFadden, D.M. Opresko, E. Rodriquez, S.L. Romano, J.L. Stake. (2007). The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. <em>Zootaxa.</em> (1668): 127-182., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01668p182.pdf [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Language	Name
Dutch	zachte koralen [from synonym]waaierkoralen [from synonym]	[details]

CALAcademy Octocoral Research Center
NOAA - Deep Water Octocorals
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Alcyonacea)
To Digital Atlas Of Marine Species & Locations, DAMSL (Soft Coral) (from synonym Alcyonacea)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) (from synonym Alcyonacea)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Alcyonacea)
To Genbank (from synonym Gorgonacea)
To The Arctic Traits Database (2 traits) (from synonym Alcyonacea)
To The Arctic Traits Database (2 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 047434) (from synonym Gorgonacea)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 056808) (from synonym Alcyonacea)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 060949)
To ITIS


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