WoRMS taxon details
Thesea Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
125315 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125315)
accepted
Genus
Thesea exerta (Ellis & Solander, 1786) accepted as Thesea guadalupensis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (type by monotypy)
Filigella Gray, 1868 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Thesea acanthoides (Thomson & Russell, 1909)
- Species Thesea alternata (Nutting, 1910)
- Species Thesea antiope Bayer, 1959
- Species Thesea bicolor Deichmann, 1936
- Species Thesea citrina Deichmann, 1936
- Species Thesea dalioi Breedy & Guzman, 2018
- Species Thesea dendritica (Nutting, 1910)
- Species Thesea gracilis (Gray, 1868)
- Species Thesea gracilis Deichmann, 1936 (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym, of Thesea gracilis (Gray, 1868))
- Species Thesea grandiflora Deichmann, 1936
- Species Thesea granulosa Deichmann, 1936
- Species Thesea guadalupensis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
- Species Thesea hebes Deichmann, 1936
- Species Thesea nivea Deichmann, 1936
- Species Thesea parviflora Deichmann, 1936
- Species Thesea pyrrha Carpinelli, Cordeiro, Castro & Kitahara, 2022
- Species Thesea rigida (Thomson, 1927)
- Species Thesea rubra Deichmann, 1936
- Species Thesea rugosa Deichmann, 1936
- Species Thesea solitaria (Pourtalès, 1868)
- Species Thesea talismani Grasshoff, 1986
- Species Thesea variabilis (Studer, 1894)
- Species Thesea bebrycoides (Nutting, 1910) accepted as Thesea acanthoides (Thomson & Russell, 1909) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Thesea boninensis (Aurivillius, 1931) accepted as Euplexaura boninensis (Aurivillius, 1931) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Thesea campanulifera (Nutting, 1910) accepted as Discogorgia campanulifera (Nutting, 1910) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Thesea crosslandi Hickson, 1928 accepted as Muricea fruticosa Verrill, 1869 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Thesea echinata Tixier-Durivault, 1970 accepted as Thesea bicolor Deichmann, 1936 (synonym)
- Species Thesea exerta (Ellis & Solander, 1786) accepted as Thesea guadalupensis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (erroneous identification)
- Species Thesea filiformis (Wright & Studer, 1889) accepted as Elasmogorgia filiformis Wright & Studer, 1889 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Thesea filigella (Thomson & Dean, 1931) accepted as Astrogorgia filigella (Thomson & Dean, 1931) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Thesea flava Nutting, 1910 accepted as Pseudothesea flava (Nutting, 1910) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Thesea flexilis Nutting, 1910 accepted as Pseudothesea flexilis (Nutting, 1910) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Thesea gemmata Verrill, 1869 accepted as Swiftia exserta (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Thesea immersa Nutting, 1910 accepted as Pseudothesea immersa (Nutting, 1910) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Thesea mitsukurii (Kinoshita, 1909) accepted as Euplexaura mitsukurii (Kinoshita, 1909) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Thesea nutans (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) accepted as Caliacis nutans (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Thesea pallida Nutting, 1910 accepted as Pseudothesea pallida (Nutting, 1910) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Thesea placoderma Nutting, 1910 accepted as Pseudothesea placoderma (Nutting, 1910) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Thesea plana Deichmann, 1936 accepted as Lytreia plana (Deichmann, 1936) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Thesea pulchra (Nutting, 1910) accepted as Paraplexaura pulchra (Nutting, 1910) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Thesea ramosa (Nutting, 1912) accepted as Elasmogorgia ramosa Nutting, 1912 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Thesea ramulosa (Gray, 1870) accepted as Echinogorgia ramulosa (Gray, 1870) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Thesea reticuloides (Nutting, 1910) accepted as Paraplexaura reticuloides (Nutting, 1910) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Thesea sanguinea Nutting, 1910 accepted as Echinogorgia sanguinea (Nutting, 1910) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Thesea simplex Nutting, 1910 accepted as Pseudothesea simplex (Nutting, 1910) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Thesea umbraticoides (Studer, 1878) accepted as Muricella umbraticoides (Studer, 1878) accepted as Astrogorgia umbraticoides (Studer, 1878) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1860). Mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin, séries 2.</em> 19: 279-365, pls 1-10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12140332
page(s): 294 [details]
page(s): 294 [details]
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Thesea Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125315 on 2025-04-29
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1860). Mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin, séries 2.</em> 19: 279-365, pls 1-10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12140332
page(s): 294 [details]
original description (of Filigella Gray, 1868) Gray, J. (1868). LVIII.—Descriptions of some new genera and species of Alcyonoid corals in the British Museum. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 2(12): 441-445., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16105021
page(s): 443 [details]
basis of record van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 104-105 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 294 [details]
original description (of Filigella Gray, 1868) Gray, J. (1868). LVIII.—Descriptions of some new genera and species of Alcyonoid corals in the British Museum. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 2(12): 441-445., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16105021
page(s): 443 [details]
basis of record van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 104-105 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
status source
McFadden, C.S.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Quattrini, A.M. (2022). Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics. <em>Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists.</em> 1(3), 8735, pp. 1-79., available online at https://ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb/article/view/8735
page(s): 67-68 [details]
page(s): 67-68 [details]
Other
additional source
Bayer, F.M. (1981). Key to the genera of Octocorallia exclusive of Pennatulacea (Coelenterata: Anthozoa), with diagnoses of new taxa. <em>Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.</em> 94(3): 902-947. (look up in IMIS)
note: Discogorgia synonym of Thesea [details]
additional source Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 153 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source van Ofwegen, L.P.; Benayahu, Y. (2006). A new genus of paralcyoniid soft corals (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea, Paralcyoniidae) from the Indo-West Pacific. <em>Journal of the Japanese Coral Reef Society.</em> 8(1): 25-37., available online at https://doi.org/10.3755/jcrs.8.25
page(s): 5 [details]
additional source Bayer, F. M. (1958). Les Octocoralliaires plexaurides des cótes occidentals d'Amérique. <em>Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Série A (Zoologie).</em> 16 (2), 41–56., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57351395
page(s): 50-52 [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 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bayer, F. M. (1991). Thelogorgia, a new genus of gorgonacean octocorals, with descriptions of four new species from the western Atlantic. <em>Bulletin of marine science.</em> 49(1-2), 506-537.
page(s): 506 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Breedy, O.; Guzmán, H. M. (2003). Octocorals from Costa Rica: The genus Pacifigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae). <em>Auckland: Magnolia Press.</em>
page(s): 4 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Deichmann, E. (1936). The Alcyonaria of the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College.</em> 53: 1-317, plates 1-37., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4363633
page(s): 7, 124, Plate 12 [details]
additional source Bayer, F.M. (1979). Adelogorgia telones, a new species of gorgonacean coral (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from the Galapagos Islands. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 91(4): 1026-1036., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34602309
page(s): 1031 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Horvath, E. A. (2019). A review of gorgonian coral species (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) held in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History research collection: focus on species from Scleraxonia, Holaxonia, Calcaxonia – Part III: Suborder Holaxonia continued, and suborder Calcaxonia. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 860: 183-306., available online at https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/34317/ [details]
additional source Hickson, S. J. (1930). On the classification of the Alcyonaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, XIV, 229-252
page(s): 249 [details]
additional source Grigg, R. W. & F.M. Bayer. (1976). Present knowledge of the systematics and zoogeography of the order Gorgonacea in Hawaii. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 30(2): 167-175.
page(s): 170 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Wirshing, H. H.; Messing, C. G.; Douady, C. J.; Reed, J. K.; Stanhope, M. J. (2005). Molecular evidence for multiple lineages in the gorgonian family Plexauridae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia). Marine Biology, 147, 497-508
page(s): 497, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 504, 505, 506, 507 [details]
note: Discogorgia synonym of Thesea [details]
additional source Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 153 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source van Ofwegen, L.P.; Benayahu, Y. (2006). A new genus of paralcyoniid soft corals (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea, Paralcyoniidae) from the Indo-West Pacific. <em>Journal of the Japanese Coral Reef Society.</em> 8(1): 25-37., available online at https://doi.org/10.3755/jcrs.8.25
page(s): 5 [details]
additional source Bayer, F. M. (1958). Les Octocoralliaires plexaurides des cótes occidentals d'Amérique. <em>Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Série A (Zoologie).</em> 16 (2), 41–56., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57351395
page(s): 50-52 [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 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bayer, F. M. (1991). Thelogorgia, a new genus of gorgonacean octocorals, with descriptions of four new species from the western Atlantic. <em>Bulletin of marine science.</em> 49(1-2), 506-537.
page(s): 506 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Breedy, O.; Guzmán, H. M. (2003). Octocorals from Costa Rica: The genus Pacifigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae). <em>Auckland: Magnolia Press.</em>
page(s): 4 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Deichmann, E. (1936). The Alcyonaria of the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College.</em> 53: 1-317, plates 1-37., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4363633
page(s): 7, 124, Plate 12 [details]
additional source Bayer, F.M. (1979). Adelogorgia telones, a new species of gorgonacean coral (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from the Galapagos Islands. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 91(4): 1026-1036., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34602309
page(s): 1031 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Horvath, E. A. (2019). A review of gorgonian coral species (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) held in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History research collection: focus on species from Scleraxonia, Holaxonia, Calcaxonia – Part III: Suborder Holaxonia continued, and suborder Calcaxonia. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 860: 183-306., available online at https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/34317/ [details]
additional source Hickson, S. J. (1930). On the classification of the Alcyonaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, XIV, 229-252
page(s): 249 [details]
additional source Grigg, R. W. & F.M. Bayer. (1976). Present knowledge of the systematics and zoogeography of the order Gorgonacea in Hawaii. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 30(2): 167-175.
page(s): 170 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Wirshing, H. H.; Messing, C. G.; Douady, C. J.; Reed, J. K.; Stanhope, M. J. (2005). Molecular evidence for multiple lineages in the gorgonian family Plexauridae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia). Marine Biology, 147, 497-508
page(s): 497, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 504, 505, 506, 507 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
