WoRMS taxon details

Distichoptilum gracile Verrill, 1882

128524  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:128524)

accepted
Species
Distichoptilum verrillii Studer, 1894 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Juncoptilum alcocki Thomson & Henderson, 1905 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Verrill, Addison Emery. (1882). Notice of the remarkable Marine Fauna occupying the outer banks off the Southern Coast of New England, No. 7, and some additions to the Fauna of Vineyard Sound. <em>The American Journal of Science.</em> Third Series. 24(143): 360-371., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38920525
page(s): 362 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Distribution cosmopolitan  
Distribution cosmopolitan [details]
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2024). World List of Octocorallia. Distichoptilum gracile Verrill, 1882. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=128524 on 2024-04-19
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original description Verrill, Addison Emery. (1882). Notice of the remarkable Marine Fauna occupying the outer banks off the Southern Coast of New England, No. 7, and some additions to the Fauna of Vineyard Sound. <em>The American Journal of Science.</em> Third Series. 24(143): 360-371., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38920525
page(s): 362 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Juncoptilum alcocki Thomson & Henderson, 1905) Thomson, J.A.; Henderson, W.D. (1905). Preliminary notice of the deep-sea Alcyonaria collected in the Indian Ocean. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> Ser. 7, 15: 547-557., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19244097
page(s): 555 [details]   

original description  (of Distichoptilum verrillii Studer, 1894) Studer, T. (1894). Reports on the dredging operations off the West Coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the West Coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. X. Notes préliminaire sur les alcyonaires. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 25(5): 53-69., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30097961
page(s): 59 [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

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

basis of record Williams, G.C.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia - Pennatulacea. <em>in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification.</em> Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 105-106. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Williams, G.C. (1992). Biogeography of the octocorallian coelenterate fauna of southern Africa. <em>Biol. J. Linn. Soc.</em> 46: 351-401.
page(s): 360, 375, 380, 393, 397 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Williams G.C. (1995). Living genera of sea pens (Coelenterata: Pennatulacea): illustrated key and synopses. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 113, pp. 93-140.
page(s): 112, 113, 132 [details]   

additional source Williams, G.C. (1999). Index Pennatulacea: annotated bibliography and indexes of the Sea Pens (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) of the World 1469-1999. <em>Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci.</em> 51(2): 19-103, 1 fig., 14 plates. (look up in IMIS[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> pp. 59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Kükenthal, W. (1915). Pennatularia. Das Tierreich. 43: 1-132., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/900948
page(s): 39 [details]   

additional source Williams, G.C. (1999). Index Pennatulacea: annotated bibliography and indexes of the Sea Pens (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) of the World 1469-1999. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 51(2): 19-103. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 35 [details]   

additional source López-González, P. J.; Gili, J. M.; Williams, G. C. (2001). New records of Pennatulacea (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the African Atlantic coast, with description of a new species and a zoogeographic analysis. <em>Scientia Marina.</em> 65(1), 59-74.
page(s): 60, 63, 71, 72 [details]   

additional source Williams, G.C. (1990). The Pennatulacea of southern Africa (Coelenterata, Anthozoa). <em>Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum.</em> 99:31-119., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40684114
page(s): 38, 39, 72, 73, 74, 75, 111, 113 [details]   

additional source Thomson, J.A.; Henderson, W.D. (1906). The marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa, from collections made by Cyril Crossland, M.A., B.Sc., F.Z.S., in the years 1901 and 1902 -- Alcyonaria. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1906, 393-442, plates 26-31., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32051773
page(s): 396 [details]   

additional source Hickson, S.J. (1916). The Pennatulacea of the Siboga Expedition with a general survey of the order. <em>Siboga Expeditie.</em> 14: 1-265, plates 1-10., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822010548360&view=1up&seq=7
page(s): 102-106 [details]   

additional source Deichmann, E. (1936). The Alcyonaria of the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College.</em> 53: 1-317, plates 1-37., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4363633
page(s): 11, 254, 265 [details]   

additional source Jungersen, H.F.E. (1904). Pennatulida. <em>The Danish Ingolf-Expedition.</em> 5(1): 1-95, plates 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16847516
page(s): 62-65 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Nontype LBM ANT-90, geounit Namibian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NTM C14561 [details]
Nontype SAfM H3163, geounit South African Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From other sources
Distribution cosmopolitan [details]

Habitat bathyal to abyssal [details]
LanguageName 
English slender sea pen  [details]
French pennatule gracile  [details]