WoRMS taxon details
Anthomastus Verrill, 1878
AphiaID: 125285
AphiaID: 125285
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Alcyoniina (Suborder) > Alcyoniidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Alcyoniidae Lamouroux, 1812 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 104-105 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Williams, G.C. (1992). Biogeography of the octocorallian coelenterate fauna of southern Africa. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 46:351-401. [details] additional source: Williams, G.; Sánchez, J. (2009). Octocorallia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Anthomastus aberrans (Thomson & Henderson, 1906) Species Anthomastus agaricoides (Thomson & Henderson, 1906) Species Anthomastus agaricus Studer, 1890 Species Anthomastus agassizii Verrill, 1922 Species Anthomastus antarcticus Kükenthal, 1910 Species Anthomastus bathyproctus Bayer, 1993 Species Anthomastus canariensis Wright & Studer, 1889 Species Anthomastus giganteus Tixier-Durivault, 1954 Species Anthomastus globosus d'Hondt, 1992 Species Anthomastus grandiflorus Verrill, 1878 Species Anthomastus granulosus Kükenthal, 1910 Species Anthomastus gyratus Molodtsova, 2013 Species Anthomastus hicksoni Bock, 1938 Species Anthomastus muscarioides Kükenthal, 1910 Species Anthomastus purpureus (Koren & Danielssen, 1883) Species Anthomastus rylovi Naumov, 1952 Species Anthomastus tahinodus d'Hondt, 1988 Species Anthomastus zealandicus Benham, 1928 Species Anthomastus agilis Tixier-Durivault, 1970 accepted as Sinularia agilis (Tixier-Durivault, 1970) Species Anthomastus elegans (Kükenthal, 1902) accepted as Alcyonium elegans (Kukenthal, 1902) Species Anthomastus fisheri Bayer, 1952 accepted as Pseudoanthomastus fisheri (Bayer, 1952) Species Anthomastus japonicus Nutting, 1923 accepted as Heteropolypus japonicus (Nutting, 1912) Species Anthomastus phalloides Benham, 1928 accepted as Minabea phalloides (Benham, 1928) Species Anthomastus ritteri Nutting, 1909 accepted as Heteropolypus ritteri (Nutting, 1909) Species Anthomastus robustum Versluys, 1906 accepted as Bathyalcyon robustum Versluys, 1906 Species Anthomastus steenstrupi Wright & Studer, 1889 accepted as Heteropolypus steenstrupi (Wright & Studer, 1889) Species Anthomastus venustus Tixier-Durivault & d'Hondt, 1974 accepted as Pseudoanthomastus venustus (Tixier-Durivault & d’Hondt, 1973) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125285 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Anthomastus Verrill, 1878. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125285 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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