African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Pennatula bayeri Castro & Medeiros, 2001

AfReMaS name details

Pennatula bayeri Castro & Medeiros, 2001

AphiaID

286635 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:286635)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (synonym)

Accepted name

Pennatula bellissima Fowler, 1888 accepted as Ptilella bellissima (Fowler, 1888)

Rank

Species

Parent

Pennatula Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Pennatula bayeri Castro & Medeiros, 2001

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Castro, C. B.; Medeiros, M. S. (2001). Brazilian Pennatulacea (Cnidaria: Octocorallia). Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, Washington. 10, 140-159. [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Pennatula bayeri Castro & Medeiros, 2001. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=286635 on 2025-12-27

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025). African Register of Marine Species. Pennatula bayeri Castro & Medeiros, 2001. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=286635 on 2025-12-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2010-09-17 06:17:46Z

checked

van Ofwegen, Leen

2019-06-25 05:41:35Z

changed

Williams, Gary

2019-09-22 13:11:30Z

changed

Cordeiro, Ralf

2021-03-26 03:51:14Z

changed

McFadden, Cathy

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Sources (4)
Documented distribution (1)

original description Castro, C. B.; Medeiros, M. S. (2001). Brazilian Pennatulacea (Cnidaria: Octocorallia). Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, Washington. 10, 140-159. [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 G.C. Williams and J. van der Land (eds), update 2004-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

source of synonymy García-Cárdenas, F. J.; Drewery, J.; López-González, P. J. (2019). Resurrection of the sea pen genus Ptilella Gray, 1870 and description of Ptilella grayi n. sp. from the NE Atlantic (Octocorallia: Pennatulacea). Scientia Marina. 83(3): 261., available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.04845.26a [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality