WoRMS taxon details

Hexacorallia

1340  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1340)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
Haeckel, 1896
accepted
Class
Zoantharia · unaccepted (as synonym of Hexacorallia)

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  1. Order Actiniaria
  2. Order Antipatharia
  3. Order Ceriantharia
  4. Order Corallimorpharia
  5. Order Scleractinia
  6. Order Zoantharia
  7. Order Ceriantipatharia (unaccepted > nomen nudum, superfluous name)
  8. Order Coralliomorpharia accepted as Corallimorpharia (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling, Spelling variation)
  9. Order Ptychodactiaria accepted as Actiniaria
  10. Order Zoanthidea accepted as Zoantharia
  11. Order Zoanthiniaria accepted as Zoantharia
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Haeckel, E. (1896). Systematische Phylogenie. Entwurf eines Natürlichen Systems der Organismen auf Grund ihrer Stammesgeschichte. Zweiter Theil: Systematische Phylogenie der wirbellosen Thiere (Invertebrata). Berlin, Georg Reimer., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3140034 [details] 
WoRMS (2025). Hexacorallia. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1340 on 2025-04-04
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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Nomenclature

original description Haeckel, E. (1896). Systematische Phylogenie. Entwurf eines Natürlichen Systems der Organismen auf Grund ihrer Stammesgeschichte. Zweiter Theil: Systematische Phylogenie der wirbellosen Thiere (Invertebrata). Berlin, Georg Reimer., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3140034 [details] 

basis of record Daly, M., M.R. Brugler, P. Cartwright, A.G. Collins, M.N. Dawson, D.G. Fautin, S.C. France, C.S. McFadden, D.M. Opresko, E. Rodriquez, S.L. Romano, J.L. Stake. (2007). The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. <em>Zootaxa.</em> (1668): 127-182., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01668p182.pdf [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Taxonomy

status source Collins, A. G. (2009). Recent insights into cnidarian phylogeny. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences.</em> 38: 139-149. [details] 

Other

additional source Vaughan TW, Wells JW. (1943). Revision of the suborders, families and genera of the Scleractinia. <em>Special Papers of the Geological Society of America.</em> 44: 1-363. [details] 

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

 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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LanguageName 
Dutch hexakoralen  [details]
English zoanthinarians [from synonym]hexacoralshexacorallians  [details]
German Hexakorallen  [details]
Japanese 六放サンゴ亜綱  [details]
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hexacorallia) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Zoantharia) (from synonym Zoantharia)
To Genbank 
To The Arctic Traits Database (5 traits) 
To ITIS

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