WoRMS taxon details

Octocorallia

1341  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1341)

Haeckel, 1866
accepted
Class
Alcyonacea · unaccepted
Gorgonacea · unaccepted

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  1. Order Malacalcyonacea
  2. Order Scleralcyonacea
  3. Order Alcyonacea accepted as Octocorallia
  4. Order Gorgonacea accepted as Octocorallia
  5. Order Helioporacea accepted as Helioporidae Moseley, 1876
  6. Order Pennatulacea accepted as Pennatuloidea McFadden, van Ofwegen & Quattrini, 2022 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
  7. Order Octocorallia incertae sedis (temporary name)
marine, brackish
Not documented
WoRMS (2024). Octocorallia. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1341 on 2024-03-19
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2009-05-14 10:34:32Z
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2014-08-06 14:26:01Z
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2024-02-29 07:57:50Z
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context source (PeRMS) Cortés, J.; Enochs, I.C.; Sibaja-Cordero, J.; Hernández, L.; Alvarado, J.J.; Breedy, O.; Cruz-Barraza, J.A.; Esquivel-Garrote, O.; Fernández-García, C.; Hermosillo, A.; Kaiser, K.L.; Medina-Rosas, P.; Morales-Ramírez, Á.; Pacheco, C.; Pérez-Matus, A.; Reyes-Bonilla, H.; Riosmena-Rodríguez, R.; Sánchez-Noguera, C.; Wieters, E.A.; Zapata, F.A. (2016). Marine Biodiversity of Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Reefs. Chap. 7, pp. 203-250 <i>in:</i> Coral Reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7499-4_7 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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] 

status source Collins, A. G. (2009). Recent insights into cnidarian phylogeny. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences.</em> 38: 139-149. [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
LanguageName 
Dutch zachte koralen [from synonym]waaierkoralen [from synonym]  [details]
English soft coralsoctocoralsoctocorallianshorny coralsgorgonians, sea fans, and sea feathersgorgoniansgorgonian corals [from synonym]alcyonaceans [from synonym]  [details]
German Weichkorallen [from synonym]OktokorallenLederkorallen [from synonym]Hornkorallen [from synonym]  [details]
Japanese 八放サンゴ亜綱ウミトサカ目 [from synonym]  [details]
Swedish hornkoraller [from synonym]  [details]