World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

WoRMS taxon details

Hexacorallia

AphiaID

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

Classification

Authority

Haeckel, 1896

Status

accepted

Rank

Class

Parent

Anthozoa

Synonymised names

Zoantharia · unaccepted (as synonym of Hexacorallia)

Direct children (11)

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Order Actiniaria
Order Antipatharia
Order Ceriantharia
Order Corallimorpharia
Order Scleractinia
Order Zoantharia
Order Ceriantipatharia (unaccepted > nomen nudum, superfluous name)
Order Coralliomorpharia accepted as Corallimorpharia (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling, Spelling variation)
Order Ptychodactiaria accepted as Actiniaria
Order Zoanthidea accepted as Zoantharia
Order Zoanthiniaria accepted as Zoantharia

Environment

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

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]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Hexacorallia. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1340 on 2025-04-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2009-05-14 10:34:32Z

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Appeltans, Ward

2013-09-29 12:24:58Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2013-09-30 11:24:24Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2024-02-29 07:57:50Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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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. Zootaxa. (1668): 127-182., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01668p182.pdf [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomy

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

Other

additional source Vaughan TW, Wells JW. (1943). Revision of the suborders, families and genera of the Scleractinia. Special Papers of the Geological Society of America. 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

Definitions

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Language	Name
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