WoRMS taxon details

Plexaurella nutans (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860)

290819  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290819)

accepted
Species
Eunicea nutans Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 · unaccepted > superseded combination (original combination)
Plexaura friabilis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1957 · unaccepted > superseded combination (original combination)
Plexaurella affinis Bell, 1889 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Plexaurella fusifera Kunze, 1916 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Plexaurella kunzei Kükenthal, 1924 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Eunicea nutans Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1860). Mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin, séries 2.</em> 19: 279-365, pls 1-10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12140332
page(s): 300-301 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2024). World List of Octocorallia. Plexaurella nutans (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290819 on 2024-04-23
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2008-01-16 10:35:54Z
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2010-09-17 06:17:46Z
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original description  (of Plexaurella kunzei Kükenthal, 1924) Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 102 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

original description  (of Plexaurella fusifera Kunze, 1916) Kunze, G. (1916). Die Gorgonarien Westindiens. Kap. 5. Die Gattung Plexaurella. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher Supplement.</em> 11(4): 553-586, plates 27-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14178910
page(s): 563-565 [details]   

original description  (of Eunicea nutans Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1860). Mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin, séries 2.</em> 19: 279-365, pls 1-10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12140332
page(s): 300-301 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Plexaura friabilis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1957) Milne Edwards H,. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits. 1. <em>Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris.</em> 326 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12045211
page(s): 156 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Plexaurella affinis Bell, 1889) Bell, F.J. (1889). Description of some new or rare species of plexaurids. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1889: 47-50, plate 3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28698610
page(s): 48 [details]   

context source (Bermuda) Sterrer, W. (1986). Marine fauna and flora of Bermuda: a systematic guide to the identification of marine organisms. <em>Wiley-Interscience Publication. Wiley.</em> 742 pp (Nemertini part). [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS[details]   

basis of record van Ofwegen, L.P., S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds). (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Cairns, S.D., and Bayer, F.M., 2009. Octocorallia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 321–331 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]   

additional source Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 106 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Bayer, F.M. (1961). The shallow-water Octocorallia of the West Indian region. A manual for marine biologists. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and Other Caribbean Islands.</em> 12:1-373, pls. 1-23., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506065
page(s): 5, 168, 172-173, 179, 325, 329, 330, 333, Pl. XIII [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Bayer, F.M. (1957). Additional records of Western Atlantic octocorals. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 47(11): 379-390., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39753773
page(s): 389-390 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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): 500, 503, 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): 510, 513, 518 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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English giant slit-pore sea rod  [details]