WoRMS taxon details
Primnoa Lamouroux, 1812
AphiaID: 125321
AphiaID: 125321
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Calcaxonia (Suborder) > Primnoidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Primnoidae Milne Edwards, 1857 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 104-105 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., and F.M.Bayer, 2009. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Primnoidae (Cnidaria:Octocorallia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 629. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington DC (USA). 79 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Williams, G.; Sánchez, J. (2009). Octocorallia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Primnoa costata Nielsen, 1913 † Species Primnoa gracilis Nielsen, 1925 † Species Primnoa notialis Cairns & Bayer, 2005 Species Primnoa pacifica Kinoshita, 1907 Species Primnoa resedaeformis (Gunnerus, 1763) Species Primnoa wingi Cairns & Bayer, 2005 Species Primnoa carinata Kinoshita, 1908 accepted as Acanthoprimnoa cristata (Kükenthal & Gorzawsky, 1908) Species Primnoa flabellum Ehrenberg, 1834 accepted as Callogorgia flabellum (Ehrenberg, 1834) Species Primnoa plumatilis (Milne Edwards, 1857) accepted as Pterostenella plumatilis (Milne Edwards, 1857) Species Primnoa regularis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 accepted as Narella regularis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) Species Primnoa reseda (Pallas) accepted as Primnoa resedaeformis (Gunnerus, 1763) Species Primnoa willeyi Hickson, 1915 accepted as Primnoa pacifica Kinoshita, 1907 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125321 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Primnoa Lamouroux, 1812. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125321 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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