Deep-Sea taxon details
Corallimorphus profundus Moseley, 1877
283831 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:283831)
accepted
Species
marine, terrestrial
Moseley H.N. 1877. On new forms of Actiniaria dredged in the deep sea; with a description of certain pelagic surface-swimming species.Transactions of the Linnean Society (London) Ser. 2. 1(5):295-305, available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1877.tb00444.x
page(s): 300-302, Plate XLV Fig. 7-8a [details]
page(s): 300-302, Plate XLV Fig. 7-8a [details]
Note Type species of *Corallimorphus* by subsequent...
Unreviewed
Type species Type species of *Corallimorphus* by subsequent designation (Carlgren, 1949). [details]
Daly, M.; Fautin, D.G. (2013). World List of Corallimorpharia. Corallimorphus profundus Moseley, 1877. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=283831 on 2026-10-12
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Corallimorphus profundus Moseley, 1877. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=283831 on 2026-10-12
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Moseley H.N. 1877. On new forms of Actiniaria dredged in the deep sea; with a description of certain pelagic surface-swimming species.Transactions of the Linnean Society (London) Ser. 2. 1(5):295-305, available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1877.tb00444.x
page(s): 300-302, Plate XLV Fig. 7-8a [details]
original description (of Corallimorphus antarcticus Carlgren & Stephenson, 1929) Carlgren, O.; Stephenson, T. A. (1929). Actiniaria. Alfred James Kent, Government Printer. Sydney., volume 9 Part 2, pp. 5-34
page(s): 7-8 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record den Hartog, J. C. & van der Land, J. (2000-2007). As a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie (Monografia). Coi Tipi der Salviucci. Roma., volume 1 (Bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia), pp. 460.
page(s): 278 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie. Atti dell' Accademia de Lincei, 14, 3, Memorie, 211-673
page(s): 486 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1884). Le attinie. Volume primo, contente bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81386
page(s): 278 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors
additional source Carlgren, O. (1943). East-Asiatic Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar.</em> 20: 1-43, pls. 1-2.
page(s): 7 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1949). A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vet- enskapsakadamiens Handlingar.</em> 1: 1–121.
page(s): 13 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O.; Stephenson, T. A. (1929). Actiniaria. Alfred James Kent, Government Printer. Sydney., volume 9 Part 2, pp. 5-34
page(s): 5-8 [details]
additional source Dawson EW. (1992). The Coelenterata of the New Zealand region: a handlist for curators, students and ecologists. <em>Occasional papers of the Hutton Foundation, New Zealand.</em> 1: 1-68.
page(s): 42 [details]
additional source den Hartog, J. C.; Grebelny, S. D. (2003). On the classification of Corallimorphus (Anthozoa: Corallimorpharia): the ration of discal and marginal tentacles. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 345, 163-171
page(s): 163 [details]
additional source Fautin, D. G. (1984). More Antarctic and Subantarctic sea anemones (Coelenterata: Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria). Antarctic Research Series, 41, 1-42
page(s): 1, 2-5, 7-8 [details]
additional source Fautin, D. G.; White, T. R. & Pearson, K. E. (2002). Two New Species of Deep-Water Corallimorpharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from the Northeast Pacific, Corallimorphus denhartogi and C. pilatus. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 56(2): 113-124., available online at https://doi.org/10.1353/psc.2002.0013
page(s): 114, 122 [details] Available for editors
additional source Fautin, D. G.; Zelenchuk, T.; Raveendran, D. (2007). Genera of orders Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Hexacorallia), and their type species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1668: 183-244., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.12
page(s): 234 [details] Available for editors
additional source Fautin, D.G. (2011). Corallimorphus niwa new species (Cnidaria: Anthozoa), New Zealand members of Corallimorphus, and redefinition of Corallimorphidae and its members. Zootaxa, 2775: 37–49., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2775.1.2
page(s): 37, 38, 42, 44, 46, 47 [details] Available for editors
additional source Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Gravier, C. (1922). Hexactinidés provenant des campagnes des yachts Hirondelle I et II et Princesse-Alice I et II (1888-1913). Imprimerie de Monaco. Monaco., volume 63, pp. 104
page(s): 87 [details]
additional source Haddon, A. C. (1898). The Actiniaria of Torres Straits. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, 6, 2, 393-520
page(s): 466 [details]
additional source Häussermann, V. (2010). Marine Benthic Fauna of Chilean Patagonia. pp. 267-272.
page(s): 268 [details]
additional source Häussermann, V.; Försterra, G. (2005). Distribution patterns of Chilean shallow-water sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actinaria, Corallimorpharia), with a discussion of the taxonomic and zoogeographic relationships between the actinofauna of ths South East Pacific, the South West Atlantic, and the Antarctic. Scientia Marina, 69 (Suppl. 2), 91-102, available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2005.69s291
page(s): 95 [details]
additional source Hertwig, R. (1882). Die Actinien der Challenger Expedition. Gustav Fischer. Jena., pp. 119.
page(s): 18, 24-25, 116, 118 [details]
additional source Hertwig, R. (1882). Report on the Actiniaria dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 (Zoology), 6(1): 1-136, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11377
page(s): 21, 27-29, 130, 132 [details]
additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1893). Report on the Actiniæ collected by the United States Fish Commission Steamer Albatross during the winter of 1887-1888. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 16(930): 119-216, available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.16-930.119
page(s): 199, 206-207 [details]
additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1904). The Actiniae of the Plate collection. Zoologische Jahrbücher, 6 Suppl.(2): 215-306
page(s): 294 [details]
additional source Moseley, H. N. (1881). Report on certain hydroid, alcyonarian, and madreporarian corals procured during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. Part III. On the deep-sea Madreporaria. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 (Zoology), 2, Zoology, 3, (1): 127-208, 238-248
page(s): 207 [details]
additional source Riemann-Zürneck, K.; Iken, K. (2003). Corallimorphus profundus in shallow Antarctic habitats: bionomics, histology, and systematcis (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 345, 367-386
page(s): 367, 368-383 [details]
additional source Rodríguez, E.; López-González, P. J.; Gili, J. (2007). Biogeography of Antarctic sea anemones (Anthozoa, Actiniaria): what do they tell us about the origin of the Antarctic benthic fauna?. Deep-Sea Research II, 54, 1876-1904, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.07.013
page(s): 1880, 1886, 1890 [details]
additional source Stephenson, T. A. (1922). On the classification of Actiniaria. Part III. -- Definitions connected with the forms dealt with in Part II. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 66, 2, (262): 247-319
page(s): 302 [details]
additional source Weill, R., 1934. Contribution à l'étude des Cnidaires et de leurs nématocystes. II. Valeur taxonomique du cnidôme. Trav. Stn zool. Wimereux 11 : 349-701.
page(s): 599-600 [details]
page(s): 300-302, Plate XLV Fig. 7-8a [details]
original description (of Corallimorphus antarcticus Carlgren & Stephenson, 1929) Carlgren, O.; Stephenson, T. A. (1929). Actiniaria. Alfred James Kent, Government Printer. Sydney., volume 9 Part 2, pp. 5-34
page(s): 7-8 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record den Hartog, J. C. & van der Land, J. (2000-2007). As a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie (Monografia). Coi Tipi der Salviucci. Roma., volume 1 (Bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia), pp. 460.
page(s): 278 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie. Atti dell' Accademia de Lincei, 14, 3, Memorie, 211-673
page(s): 486 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1884). Le attinie. Volume primo, contente bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81386
page(s): 278 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors
additional source Carlgren, O. (1943). East-Asiatic Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar.</em> 20: 1-43, pls. 1-2.
page(s): 7 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1949). A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vet- enskapsakadamiens Handlingar.</em> 1: 1–121.
page(s): 13 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O.; Stephenson, T. A. (1929). Actiniaria. Alfred James Kent, Government Printer. Sydney., volume 9 Part 2, pp. 5-34
page(s): 5-8 [details]
additional source Dawson EW. (1992). The Coelenterata of the New Zealand region: a handlist for curators, students and ecologists. <em>Occasional papers of the Hutton Foundation, New Zealand.</em> 1: 1-68.
page(s): 42 [details]
additional source den Hartog, J. C.; Grebelny, S. D. (2003). On the classification of Corallimorphus (Anthozoa: Corallimorpharia): the ration of discal and marginal tentacles. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 345, 163-171
page(s): 163 [details]
additional source Fautin, D. G. (1984). More Antarctic and Subantarctic sea anemones (Coelenterata: Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria). Antarctic Research Series, 41, 1-42
page(s): 1, 2-5, 7-8 [details]
additional source Fautin, D. G.; White, T. R. & Pearson, K. E. (2002). Two New Species of Deep-Water Corallimorpharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from the Northeast Pacific, Corallimorphus denhartogi and C. pilatus. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 56(2): 113-124., available online at https://doi.org/10.1353/psc.2002.0013
page(s): 114, 122 [details] Available for editors
additional source Fautin, D. G.; Zelenchuk, T.; Raveendran, D. (2007). Genera of orders Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Hexacorallia), and their type species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1668: 183-244., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.12
page(s): 234 [details] Available for editors
additional source Fautin, D.G. (2011). Corallimorphus niwa new species (Cnidaria: Anthozoa), New Zealand members of Corallimorphus, and redefinition of Corallimorphidae and its members. Zootaxa, 2775: 37–49., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2775.1.2
page(s): 37, 38, 42, 44, 46, 47 [details] Available for editors
additional source Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Gravier, C. (1922). Hexactinidés provenant des campagnes des yachts Hirondelle I et II et Princesse-Alice I et II (1888-1913). Imprimerie de Monaco. Monaco., volume 63, pp. 104
page(s): 87 [details]
additional source Haddon, A. C. (1898). The Actiniaria of Torres Straits. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, 6, 2, 393-520
page(s): 466 [details]
additional source Häussermann, V. (2010). Marine Benthic Fauna of Chilean Patagonia. pp. 267-272.
page(s): 268 [details]
additional source Häussermann, V.; Försterra, G. (2005). Distribution patterns of Chilean shallow-water sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actinaria, Corallimorpharia), with a discussion of the taxonomic and zoogeographic relationships between the actinofauna of ths South East Pacific, the South West Atlantic, and the Antarctic. Scientia Marina, 69 (Suppl. 2), 91-102, available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2005.69s291
page(s): 95 [details]
additional source Hertwig, R. (1882). Die Actinien der Challenger Expedition. Gustav Fischer. Jena., pp. 119.
page(s): 18, 24-25, 116, 118 [details]
additional source Hertwig, R. (1882). Report on the Actiniaria dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 (Zoology), 6(1): 1-136, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11377
page(s): 21, 27-29, 130, 132 [details]
additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1893). Report on the Actiniæ collected by the United States Fish Commission Steamer Albatross during the winter of 1887-1888. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 16(930): 119-216, available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.16-930.119
page(s): 199, 206-207 [details]
additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1904). The Actiniae of the Plate collection. Zoologische Jahrbücher, 6 Suppl.(2): 215-306
page(s): 294 [details]
additional source Moseley, H. N. (1881). Report on certain hydroid, alcyonarian, and madreporarian corals procured during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. Part III. On the deep-sea Madreporaria. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 (Zoology), 2, Zoology, 3, (1): 127-208, 238-248
page(s): 207 [details]
additional source Riemann-Zürneck, K.; Iken, K. (2003). Corallimorphus profundus in shallow Antarctic habitats: bionomics, histology, and systematcis (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 345, 367-386
page(s): 367, 368-383 [details]
additional source Rodríguez, E.; López-González, P. J.; Gili, J. (2007). Biogeography of Antarctic sea anemones (Anthozoa, Actiniaria): what do they tell us about the origin of the Antarctic benthic fauna?. Deep-Sea Research II, 54, 1876-1904, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.07.013
page(s): 1880, 1886, 1890 [details]
additional source Stephenson, T. A. (1922). On the classification of Actiniaria. Part III. -- Definitions connected with the forms dealt with in Part II. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 66, 2, (262): 247-319
page(s): 302 [details]
additional source Weill, R., 1934. Contribution à l'étude des Cnidaires et de leurs nématocystes. II. Valeur taxonomique du cnidôme. Trav. Stn zool. Wimereux 11 : 349-701.
page(s): 599-600 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype BMNH 1889.11.25.3, geounit High Seas [details]
Nontype CAS 21152, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype CAS 29181, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype CAS 29325, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype CAS 29400, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype NIWA 35728, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype NIWA 38316, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype NIWA 38354, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype NIWA 38794, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype NIWA 38857, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype NIWA 38861, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype NIWA 38876, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype NIWA 38877, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype NIWA 38883, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype NIWA 38945, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype NIWA 39184, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype NIWA 39325, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype NIWA 40650, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NIWA 41760, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype USNM 17806, geounit United States Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype USNM 60645, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype USNM 60684, geounit Antarctica [details]
Nontype USNM 60685, geounit Overlapping claim South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: United Kingdom / Argentina [details]
Nontype USNM 61004, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype USNM 61005, geounit Overlapping claim South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: United Kingdom / Argentina [details]
Syntype BMNH 1889.11.25.4, geounit Chilean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Syntype BMNH 1889.11.25.5, geounit High Seas [details]
Unknown type ZMH [details]
Unreviewed
Habitat coastal to abyssal [details]Type species Type species of *Corallimorphus* by subsequent designation (Carlgren, 1949). [details]
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Corallimorphus profundus)
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Corallimorphus profundis, USNM 060684)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Corallimorphus profundus, USNM 060684)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (11 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Corallimorphus profundus)
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Corallimorphus profundis, USNM 060684)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Corallimorphus profundus, USNM 060684)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (11 records)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
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