WoRMS taxon details
Gorgonacea
AphiaID: 1366
AphiaID: 1366
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) |
| Authority | Lamouroux, 1816 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Status |  unaccepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Alcyonacea | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Order | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Octocorallia | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Bayer, F.M. (1981). Key to the genera of Octocorallia exclusive of Pennatulacea (Coelenterata: Anthozoa), with diagnoses of new taxa Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 94(3): 902-947 (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa | Suborder Holaxonia Family Paramuriceidae Bayer, 1956 Family Gorgonellidae accepted as Ellisellidae Gray, 1859 Family Melitodidae accepted as Melithaeidae Gray, 1870 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1366 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Gorgonacea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1366 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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