WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Antipathes pennacea Pallas, 1766) Pallas, P. S. (1766). Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succintas descriptiones, cum selectis auctorum synonymis. <em>[book].</em> pp. 451, Fransiscum Varrentrapp, Hagae., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6019361 page(s): 209-210 [details]
original description
(of Antipathes pluma Gray, 1857) Gray, J.E. (1857). Synopsis of the families and genera of axiferous zoophytes or barked corals. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 25 (1): 278-294., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32451423 page(s): 291 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
D.M.Opresko and J. van der Land (eds), update 10-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Opresko, D. M. 2009. Antipatharia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 359–363 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [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 [request]
additional source
Opresko, D.M. 2001. Revision of the Antipatharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Part I. Establishment of a new family, Myriopathidae. Zool. Med. Leiden 75 (17): 343-370, available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/45071 page(s): 361-363 [details]
additional source
Tazioli, S.; Bo, M.; Boyer, M.; Rotinsulu, H.; Bavestrello, G. (2007). Ecological observations of some common antipatharian corals in the marine park of Bunaken (North Sulawesi, Indonesia). Zoological Studies, 46(2): 227-241 page(s): 239 [details]
Neotype RMNH Coel. 6801, geounit Europa Island [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution ...Although specimens referred to A. pennacea are common in the western Atlantic (Caribbean region; Opresko, 1974) and also known from the south Atlantic (St. Helena; Brook, 1889; Opresko, 1974), the species has only rarely been reported from the Indo-Pacific, the type locality. van Pesch, 1914, however, described several specimens from the Philippines under the name Antipathes pennacea. These differ from neotype particularly in the maximum size of the axial spines (0.11 mm vs. 0.24 mm). Furthermore, the St. Helena specimens differ from both the Indo-Pacifc specimens of van Pesch and the western Atlantic material in both the size of the spines (up to 0.32 mm) and in the density of the polyps (see Opresko, 1974, for further discussion). Thus, it is quite likely that more than one species is currently included under the name P. pennacea.... [details]
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English |
feather black coral [from synonym] |
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