North Sea Benthos Project (NSBP)

Traits taxon details

Octocorallia

AphiaID

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

Classification

Authority

Haeckel, 1866

Status

accepted

Rank

Class

Parent

Anthozoa

Synonymised names

Alcyonacea · unaccepted

Direct children (6)

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Order Alcyonacea accepted as Octocorallia
Order Helioporacea accepted as Helioporidae Moseley, 1876
Order Malacalcyonacea
Order Octocorallia incertae sedis (temporary name)
Order Pennatulacea accepted as Pennatuloidea Ehrenberg, 1834 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
Order Scleralcyonacea

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Traits (2024). Octocorallia. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1341 on 2024-12-03

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2024). Marine Species Traits. Octocorallia. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1341 on 2024-12-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2009-05-14 10:34:32Z

changed

Appeltans, Ward

2014-08-06 14:26:01Z

checked

van Ofwegen, Leen

2016-04-22 09:18:44Z

changed

van Ofwegen, Leen

2024-02-29 07:57:50Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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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 in: 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

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

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