WoRMS taxon details
Muricea Lamouroux, 1821
177745 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177745)
accepted
Genus
Muricea spicifera Lamouroux, 1821 accepted as Muricea muricata (Pallas, 1766) (type by subsequent designation)
Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Eunicensis Dubrowsky, 1934 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Muricea (Eumuricea) Verrill, 1869 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Muricea acervata Verrill, 1866
- Species Muricea albida Verrill, 1868
- Species Muricea ambarae Hernández, Gómez-Gutiérrez, Galván-Tirado & Sánchez, 2023
- Species Muricea aspera Verrill, 1869
- Species Muricea atlantica (Riess in Kükenthal, 1919)
- Species Muricea austera Verrill, 1869
- Species Muricea cacao Hernández, Gómez-Gutiérrez, Galván-Tirado & Sánchez, 2023
- Species Muricea californica Aurivillius, 1931
- Species Muricea crassa Verrill, 1869
- Species Muricea echinata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857
- Species Muricea elongata Lamouroux, 1821
- Species Muricea flamma Marques & Castro, 1995
- Species Muricea formosa Verrill, 1869
- Species Muricea fruticosa Verrill, 1869
- Species Muricea galapagensis Deichmann, 1941
- Species Muricea hebes Verrill, 1864
- Species Muricea hispida Verrill, 1866
- Species Muricea laxa Verrill, 1864
- Species Muricea midas Bayer, 1959
- Species Muricea molinai Hernández, Gómez-Gutiérrez, Galván-Tirado & Sánchez, 2023
- Species Muricea mortensenii Hickson, 1928
- Species Muricea muricata (Pallas, 1766)
- Species Muricea nariformis Aurivillius, 1931
- Species Muricea pendula Verrill, 1864
- Species Muricea pinnata Bayer, 1961
- Species Muricea plantaginea (Valenciennes, 1846)
- Species Muricea purpurea Verrill, 1868
- Species Muricea retusa Verrill, 1869
- Species Muricea robusta Verrill, 1864
- Species Muricea squarrosa Verrill, 1869
- Species Muricea subtilis Breedy & Guzman, 2016
- Species Muricea tubigera Verrill, 1869
- Species Muricea waltonsmithi Bayer, 1994
- Subgenus Muricea (Eumuricea) Verrill, 1869 accepted as Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Muricea (Eumuricea) acervata Verrill, 1866 accepted as Muricea acervata Verrill, 1866 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Muricea (Eumuricea) hispida Verrill, 1866 accepted as Muricea hispida Verrill, 1866 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Muricea (Eumuricea) horrida Möbius, 1861 accepted as Muricea horrida Möbius, 1861 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Muricea (Eumuricea) squarrosa Verrill, 1869 accepted as Muricea squarrosa Verrill, 1869 (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Muricea (Eumuricea) tubigera Verrill, 1869 accepted as Muricea tubigera Verrill, 1869 (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Subgenus Muricea (Muricella) Verrill, 1869 accepted as Muricella Verrill, 1869 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Muricea appressa Verrill, 1864 accepted as Muricea plantaginea (Valenciennes, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Muricea bebrycoides von Koch, 1887 accepted as Villogorgia bebrycoides (von Koch, 1887) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Muricea chamaeleon von Koch, 1882 accepted as Paramuricea clavata (Risso, 1827) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Muricea divaricata Verrill, 1865 accepted as Anthogorgia divaricata (Verrill, 1865) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Muricea echinata Valenciennes, 1855 accepted as Muricea echinata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 (unaccepted > nomen nudum, incorrect combination)
- Species Muricea echinata Verrill, 1866 accepted as Muricea echinata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 (incorrect authority)
- Species Muricea elegans Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 accepted as Gorgonia elegans (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) (original combination)
- Species Muricea elegans Agassiz, MS in Verrill, 1864 accepted as Muricea pendula Verrill, 1864 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Muricea flexuosa (Verrill, 1865) accepted as Muricella flexuosa (Verrill, 1865) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Muricea granulosa Verrill, 1870 accepted as Muriceopsis tuberculata (Esper, 1792) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Muricea koellikeri von Koch, 1882 accepted as Paramuricea chamaeleon var. koellikeri (von Koch, 1882) (synonym)
- Species Muricea macrospina von Koch, 1882 accepted as Paramuricea macrospina (von Koch, 1882) (original combination)
- Species Muricea myura (Lamarck, 1815) accepted as Myura simplex Gray, 1859 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Muricea nitida Verrill, 1868 accepted as Muricella nitida (Verrill, 1868) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Muricea paucituberculata Marion, 1906 accepted as Muriceides sceptrum (Studer, 1891) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Muricea placomus (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Paramuricea placomus (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Muricea purpurea Verrill, 1864 accepted as Muricea purpurea Verrill, 1868 (incorrect authority year)
- Species Muricea pusilla (Nutting, 1909) accepted as Swiftia pusilla (Nutting, 1909) (changed combination)
- Species Muricea ramosa (Thomson & Simpson, 1909) accepted as Astrogorgia ramosa (Thomson & Simpson, 1909) (changed combination)
- Species Muricea rubra Aurivillius, 1931 accepted as Muricea purpurea Verrill, 1868 (synonym)
- Species Muricea sinensis Verrill, 1865 accepted as Astrogorgia sinensis (Verrill, 1865) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Muricea spicifera Lamouroux, 1821 accepted as Muricea muricata (Pallas, 1766) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, uncertain)
- Species Muricea splendens (Thomson & Simpson, 1909) accepted as Astrogorgia splendens (Thomson & Simpson, 1909) (changed combination)
- Species Muricea tenella Verrill, 1869 accepted as Muricea plantaginea (Valenciennes, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Muricea umbraticoides Studer, 1878 accepted as Muricella umbraticoides (Studer, 1878) accepted as Astrogorgia umbraticoides (Studer, 1878) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Muricea acropora Verrill, 1912 (uncertain)
- Species Muricea bicolor Wright & Studer, 1889 (uncertain)
- Species Muricea echinata von Koch, 1882 (uncertain)
- Species Muricea horrida Möbius, 1861 (uncertain > nomen dubium)
- Species Muricea humilis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) (uncertain)
- Species Muricea teretiuscula Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 (uncertain)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Lamouroux JVF. (1821). Exposition méthodique des genres de l'ordre des polypiers: avec leur description et celle des principales espèces, figurées dans 84 planches, les 63 premières appartenant à l'Histoire naturelle des zoophytes d'Ellis et Solander. <em>Paris 1821.</em> pp. 1-115, pls. 1-84., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50899961
page(s): 36 [details]
page(s): 36 [details]
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2024). World List of Octocorallia. Muricea Lamouroux, 1821. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=177745 on 2024-04-18
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original description
Lamouroux JVF. (1821). Exposition méthodique des genres de l'ordre des polypiers: avec leur description et celle des principales espèces, figurées dans 84 planches, les 63 premières appartenant à l'Histoire naturelle des zoophytes d'Ellis et Solander. <em>Paris 1821.</em> pp. 1-115, pls. 1-84., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50899961
page(s): 36 [details]
original description (of Eumuricea Verrill, 1869) Verrill, A.E. (1868-1870). Notes on Radiata in the Museum of Yale College, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. 6. Review of the corals and polyps of the west coast of America. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science.</em> 1: 377-558, pl. 6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27729638
page(s): 449 [details]
original description (of Eunicensis Dubrowsky, 1934) Dubrowsky, S. (1934). Studien über westindische Gorgonarien. <em>Notationes Biologicae.</em> 2(1): 1-15.
page(s): 10-11 [details]
original description (of Muricea (Eumuricea) Verrill, 1869) Verrill, A.E. (1868-1870). Notes on Radiata in the Museum of Yale College, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. 6. Review of the corals and polyps of the west coast of America. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science.</em> 1: 377-558, pl. 6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27729638
page(s): 449 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
context source (PeRMS) Cortés, J.; Enochs, I.C.; Sibaja-Cordero, J.; Hernández, L.; Alvarado, J.J.; Breedy, O.; Cruz-Barraza, J.A.; Esquivel-Garrote, O.; Fernández-García, C.; Hermosillo, A.; Kaiser, K.L.; Medina-Rosas, P.; Morales-Ramírez, Á.; Pacheco, C.; Pérez-Matus, A.; Reyes-Bonilla, H.; Riosmena-Rodríguez, R.; Sánchez-Noguera, C.; Wieters, E.A.; Zapata, F.A. (2016). Marine Biodiversity of Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Reefs. Chap. 7, pp. 203-250 <i>in:</i> Coral Reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7499-4_7 [details] Available for editors
[request]
basis of record Watling, L.; Auster, P. (2005). Distribution of deep-water Alcyonacea off the Northeast Coast of the United States. In: Freiwald, A., R.J. Murray, editors. Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems. <em>Proceedings of the Second Deep-Sea Coral Symposium.</em> 279-296. [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Breedy, O.; Guzman, H. (2016). A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part II. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 581: 1-69., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.581.7910 [details]
additional source Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 141-142 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source van Ofwegen, L.P.; Benayahu, Y. (2006). A new genus of paralcyoniid soft corals (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea, Paralcyoniidae) from the Indo-West Pacific. <em>Journal of the Japanese Coral Reef Society.</em> 8(1): 25-37., available online at https://doi.org/10.3755/jcrs.8.25
page(s): 4 [details]
additional source Breedy, O.; Guzmán, H. M. (2003). Octocorals from Costa Rica: The genus Pacifigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae). <em>Auckland: Magnolia Press.</em>
page(s): 4, 55 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Breedy, O.; Guzmán, H. M. (2003). A new species of Pacifigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae) from Panamá. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 128: 1-10.
page(s): 1 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Breedy, O.; Guzman, H. M. (2015). A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 537: 1-32., available online at https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6025 [details]
additional source Song, J. I. (1980). A systematic study on Octocorallia in Korea 5. Paramuriceidae (Holaxonia: Gorgonacea). Korean Journal of Zoology, 23(1): 25-40
page(s): 25 [details]
additional source Wirshing, H. H.; Messing, C. G.; Douady, C. J.; Reed, J. K.; Stanhope, M. J. (2005). Molecular evidence for multiple lineages in the gorgonian family Plexauridae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia). Marine Biology, 147, 497-508
page(s): 497, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506 [details]
additional source Sánchez, J. A.; Wirshing, H. H. (2005). A field key to the identification of tropical western Atlantic zooxanthellate octocorals (Octocorallia: Cnidaria). Caribbean Journal of Science, 41(3): 508-522
page(s): 513 [details]
additional source Horvath, E. A. (2019). A review of gorgonian coral species (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) held in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History research collection: focus on species from Scleraxonia, Holaxonia, Calcaxonia – Part II: Species of Holaxonia, families Gorgoniidae and Plexauridae. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 860: 67-182., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.860.33597 [details]
page(s): 36 [details]
original description (of Eumuricea Verrill, 1869) Verrill, A.E. (1868-1870). Notes on Radiata in the Museum of Yale College, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. 6. Review of the corals and polyps of the west coast of America. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science.</em> 1: 377-558, pl. 6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27729638
page(s): 449 [details]
original description (of Eunicensis Dubrowsky, 1934) Dubrowsky, S. (1934). Studien über westindische Gorgonarien. <em>Notationes Biologicae.</em> 2(1): 1-15.
page(s): 10-11 [details]
original description (of Muricea (Eumuricea) Verrill, 1869) Verrill, A.E. (1868-1870). Notes on Radiata in the Museum of Yale College, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. 6. Review of the corals and polyps of the west coast of America. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science.</em> 1: 377-558, pl. 6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27729638
page(s): 449 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
context source (PeRMS) Cortés, J.; Enochs, I.C.; Sibaja-Cordero, J.; Hernández, L.; Alvarado, J.J.; Breedy, O.; Cruz-Barraza, J.A.; Esquivel-Garrote, O.; Fernández-García, C.; Hermosillo, A.; Kaiser, K.L.; Medina-Rosas, P.; Morales-Ramírez, Á.; Pacheco, C.; Pérez-Matus, A.; Reyes-Bonilla, H.; Riosmena-Rodríguez, R.; Sánchez-Noguera, C.; Wieters, E.A.; Zapata, F.A. (2016). Marine Biodiversity of Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Reefs. Chap. 7, pp. 203-250 <i>in:</i> Coral Reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7499-4_7 [details] Available for editors
[request] basis of record Watling, L.; Auster, P. (2005). Distribution of deep-water Alcyonacea off the Northeast Coast of the United States. In: Freiwald, A., R.J. Murray, editors. Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems. <em>Proceedings of the Second Deep-Sea Coral Symposium.</em> 279-296. [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Breedy, O.; Guzman, H. (2016). A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part II. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 581: 1-69., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.581.7910 [details]
additional source Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 141-142 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source van Ofwegen, L.P.; Benayahu, Y. (2006). A new genus of paralcyoniid soft corals (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea, Paralcyoniidae) from the Indo-West Pacific. <em>Journal of the Japanese Coral Reef Society.</em> 8(1): 25-37., available online at https://doi.org/10.3755/jcrs.8.25
page(s): 4 [details]
additional source Breedy, O.; Guzmán, H. M. (2003). Octocorals from Costa Rica: The genus Pacifigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae). <em>Auckland: Magnolia Press.</em>
page(s): 4, 55 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Breedy, O.; Guzmán, H. M. (2003). A new species of Pacifigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae) from Panamá. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 128: 1-10.
page(s): 1 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Breedy, O.; Guzman, H. M. (2015). A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 537: 1-32., available online at https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6025 [details]
additional source Song, J. I. (1980). A systematic study on Octocorallia in Korea 5. Paramuriceidae (Holaxonia: Gorgonacea). Korean Journal of Zoology, 23(1): 25-40
page(s): 25 [details]
additional source Wirshing, H. H.; Messing, C. G.; Douady, C. J.; Reed, J. K.; Stanhope, M. J. (2005). Molecular evidence for multiple lineages in the gorgonian family Plexauridae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia). Marine Biology, 147, 497-508
page(s): 497, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506 [details]
additional source Sánchez, J. A.; Wirshing, H. H. (2005). A field key to the identification of tropical western Atlantic zooxanthellate octocorals (Octocorallia: Cnidaria). Caribbean Journal of Science, 41(3): 508-522
page(s): 513 [details]
additional source Horvath, E. A. (2019). A review of gorgonian coral species (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) held in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History research collection: focus on species from Scleraxonia, Holaxonia, Calcaxonia – Part II: Species of Holaxonia, families Gorgoniidae and Plexauridae. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 860: 67-182., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.860.33597 [details]
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