North Sea Benthos Project (NSBP)

WoRMS taxon details

Anthozoa

AphiaID

1292 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1292)

Classification

Authority

Ehrenberg, 1834

Status

accepted

Rank

Subphylum

Parent

Cnidaria

Direct children (4)

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Class Hexacorallia
Class Octocorallia
Class Zoantharia accepted as Hexacorallia (as synonym of Hexacorallia)
Class Anthozoa incertae sedis (temporary name)

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin. 1: 225-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29725862 [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Anthozoa. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1292 on 2025-04-21

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

2013-09-07 08:42:32Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2017-12-08 10:14:01Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2024-02-29 07:57:50Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin. 1: 225-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29725862 [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

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

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Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Language	Name
Dutch	bloemdieren	[details]
English	flower animalsanthozoans	[details]
German	BlumentiereBlumenpolypenAnthozoen	[details]
Japanese	花虫綱	[details]
Swedish	koralldjur	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Anthozoa)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To The Arctic Traits Database (4 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 055539)
To ITIS

Unreviewed

Cerianthid larva

Anthozoa

Actinozoa

To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 055539)

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