African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Verrucella Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857

Traits taxon details

Verrucella Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857

AphiaID

267944 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267944)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Ellisellidae Gray, 1859

Direct children (25)

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Species Verrucella aurantia (Gray, 1869)
Species Verrucella cerasina Grasshoff, 1999
Species Verrucella corona Grasshoff, 1999
Species Verrucella delicatula (Nutting, 1910)
Species Verrucella diadema Grasshoff, 1999
Species Verrucella flexuosa (Lamarck, 1815)
Species Verrucella furcata (Lamarck, 1815)
Species Verrucella granulata (Esper, 1791)
Species Verrucella gubalensis Grasshoff, 2000
Species Verrucella ixobola Grasshoff, 1999
Species Verrucella klunzingeri Grasshoff, 2000
Species Verrucella miniacea (Studer, 1878)
Species Verrucella pallida Grasshoff, 1999
Species Verrucella pseudoantipathes (Kölliker, 1865)
Species Verrucella reticulata (Thomson & Simpson, 1909)
Species Verrucella rigida (Nutting, 1910)
Species Verrucella rosea Grasshoff, 1999
Species Verrucella umbella (Esper, 1798)
Species Verrucella umbracula (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
Species Verrucella verriculata (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857)
Species Verrucella verseveldti Tixier-Durivault, 1972
Species Verrucella flaviflora Nutting, 1910 accepted as Ellisella ceylonensis (Simpson, 1910) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Verrucella alba (Toeplitz in Kükenthal, 1919) (uncertain > unassessed)
Species Verrucella dichromata Fernando, 2017 (uncertain > unassessed)
Species Verrucella rubra Thomson & Henderson, 1905 (uncertain > unassessed)

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Milne Edwards H,. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits. 1. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 326 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12045211
page(s): 184 [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2024). World List of Octocorallia. Verrucella Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2024) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267944 on 2024-10-07

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2024). Marine Species Traits. Verrucella Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267944 on 2024-10-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-14 11:18:07Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2010-09-16 09:11:12Z

changed

van Ofwegen, Leen

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original description Milne Edwards H,. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits. 1. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 326 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12045211
page(s): 184 [details]

context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]

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

basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]

additional source Bayer, F.M.& E. Deichmann. (1960). The Ellisellidae (Octocorallia) and their bearing on the zoogeography of the Eastern Pacific. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 73: 175-182., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34642168
page(s): 176 [details] Available for editors

additional source Bayer, F. M. (1959). The alcyonarian and black corals (Anthozoa, Octocorallia and Antipatharia) described and figured by G.E. Rumphius. H. C. D. de Wit (eds.). Uitgeverij en Drukkerij Hollandia N.V. Baarn, pp. 225-247
page(s): 231-232 [details] Available for editors

additional source Fabricius, K.; Alderslade, P. (2001). Soft Corals and Sea Fans: A Comprehensive Guide to the Shallow-water Genera of the Central-West Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville. pp. 264.
page(s): iv, 63, 236-237, 238 [details]

additional source Reinicke, G. B.; van Ofwegen, L. P. (1999). Soft corals (Alcyonacea: Octocorallia) from shallow water in the Chagos Archipelago: species assemblages and their distribution. Linnean Society Occasional Publications, 2, 67-85, plates 1-10
page(s): 74, 79, 85 [details]

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Introduced: alien

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Verrucella)
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To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 005992.CN)

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