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WoRMS taxon details

Octocorallia

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

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Octocorallia (Class)
Haeckel, 1866
accepted
Class
Alcyonacea · unaccepted
Gorgonacea · unaccepted

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  1. Order Malacalcyonacea
  2. Order Scleralcyonacea
  3. Order Alcyonacea accepted as Octocorallia
  4. Order Gorgonacea accepted as Octocorallia
  5. Order Helioporacea accepted as Helioporidae Moseley, 1876
  6. Order Pennatulacea accepted as Pennatuloidea Ehrenberg, 1834 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
  7. Order Octocorallia incertae sedis (temporary name)
marine, brackish, terrestrial
Not documented
WoRMS (2024). Octocorallia. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1341 on 2024-12-16
Date
action
by
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 <i>in:</i> 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  PDF available [request]

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

status source Collins, A. G. (2009). Recent insights into cnidarian phylogeny. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences.</em> 38: 139-149. [details] 
 
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LanguageName 
Dutch zachte koralen [from synonym]waaierkoralen [from synonym]  [details]
English soft coralsoctocoralsoctocorallianshorny coralsgorgonians, sea fans, and sea feathersgorgoniansgorgonian corals [from synonym]alcyonaceans [from synonym]  [details]
German Weichkorallen [from synonym]OktokorallenLederkorallen [from synonym]Hornkorallen [from synonym]  [details]
Japanese 八放サンゴ亜綱ウミトサカ目 [from synonym]  [details]
Swedish hornkoraller [from synonym]  [details]
CALAcademy Octocoral Research Center 
NOAA - Deep Water Octocorals 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Alcyonacea)
To Digital Atlas Of Marine Species & Locations, DAMSL (Soft Coral) (from synonym Alcyonacea)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Octocorallia) 
To Genbank 
To Genbank (from synonym Alcyonacea)
To Genbank (from synonym Gorgonacea)
To The Arctic Traits Database (2 traits) (from synonym Alcyonacea)
To The Arctic Traits Database (2 traits) 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 047434) (from synonym Gorgonacea)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 056808) (from synonym Alcyonacea)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 060949) 
To ITIS
Unreviewed
To Digital Atlas Of Marine Species & Locations, DAMSL (Soft Coral)
To Digital Atlas Of Marine Species & Locations, DAMSL (Soft Coral)
Hosted externally, from synonym
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 047434)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 047434)
Hosted externally, from synonym
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 056808)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 056808)
Hosted externally, from synonym
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 060949)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 060949)
Hosted externally
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