WoRMS taxon detailsGorgonia flabellum Linnaeus, 1758
290029 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290029)
accepted
Species
Busella occatoria (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) · unaccepted (synonym)
Gorgonia flabellum f. occatoria (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) · unaccepted (synonym)
Rhipidigorgia flabellum (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Rhipidigorgia occatoria Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Rhipidogorgia elegans Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Rhipidogorgia flabellum (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine,
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors
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McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Gorgonia flabellum Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290029 on 2025-02-08
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original description
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Rhipidigorgia occatoria Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 page(s): 175 [details] original description (of Rhipidogorgia elegans Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1864). Supplément au mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Memorie della Reale Accademia della Scienze di Torino, Serie 2.</em> 23: 97-206, plates 1-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31197612 page(s): 114 [details] basis of record van Ofwegen, L.P., S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds). (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source Cairns, S.D., and Bayer, F.M., 2009. Octocorallia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 321–331 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 Alcolado, P. M. (1985). Sinonimia de Plexaurella fusifera Künze, 1916, con P. dichotoma (Esper, 1791) (Coelenterata: Gorgonacea). <em>Poeyana.</em> 294: 1-3. page(s): 2 [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Bayer, F.M. (1961). The shallow-water Octocorallia of the West Indian region. A manual for marine biologists. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and Other Caribbean Islands.</em> 12:1-373, pls. 1-23., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506065 page(s): 6, 13, 257, 258, 265, 332, 333, 334, 340, 343, Pl. X [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Breedy, O.; Guzmán, H. M. (2002). A revision of the genus Pacifigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 115(4): 782-839., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35519153 page(s): 783 [details] additional source Bayer, F.M. (1957). Additional records of Western Atlantic octocorals. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 47(11): 379-390., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39753773 page(s): 389 [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Fabricius, K.; Alderslade, P. (2001). Soft Corals and Sea Fans: A Comprehensive Guide to the Shallow-water Genera of the Central-West Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville.</em> pp. 264. page(s): 25 [details] additional source Bayer, F. M. (1954). Anthozoa: Alcyonaria. <em>Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.).</em> 89: 279-284. page(s): 280, 282 [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Sánchez, J. A. (2001). Systematics of the southwestern Caribbean Muriceopsis Aurivillius (Cnidaria: Octocorallia), with the description of a new species. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, 10, 160-180 page(s): 177 [details] additional source Sánchez, J. A.; Wirshing, H. H. (2005). A field key to the identification of tropical western Atlantic zooxanthellate octocorals (Octocorallia: Cnidaria). Caribbean Journal of Science, 41(3): 508-522 page(s): 510, 511, 518 [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (141 publications) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gorgonia flabellum) To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 6 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (191 records) To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 091859) To ITIS |
