WoRMS taxon details
Nicella Gray, 1870
AphiaID: 125299
AphiaID: 125299
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Calcaxonia (Suborder) > Ellisellidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ellisellidae Gray, 1859 | |||||||||||||
| 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] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [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] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Nicella americana Toeplitz, 1919 Species Nicella carinata Nutting, 1910 Species Nicella deichmannae Cairns, 2007 Species Nicella dichotoma (Gray, 1860) Species Nicella flabellata (Whitelegge, 1897) Species Nicella flagellum (Studer, 1901) Species Nicella goreaui Bayer, 1973 Species Nicella gracilis Cairns, 2007 Species Nicella granifera (Kölliker, 1865) Species Nicella guadalupensis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) Species Nicella hebes Cairns, 2007 Species Nicella lanceolata Cairns, 2007 Species Nicella laxa Whitelegge, 1897 Species Nicella magna Grasshoff, 1999 Species Nicella multiramosa Kükenthal, 1919 Species Nicella obesa Deichmann, 1936 Species Nicella pustulosa (Thomson & Simpson, 1909) Species Nicella robusta Cairns, 2007 Species Nicella spicula Cairns, 2007 Species Nicella toeplitzae Viada & Cairns, 2007 Species Nicella coralloides Nutting, 1910 accepted as Nicella carinata Nutting, 1910 Species Nicella mauritiana Gray, 1870 accepted as Nicella dichotoma (Gray, 1860) Species Nicella ramosa Toeplitz, 1919 accepted as Nicella americana Toeplitz, 1919 Species Nicella schmitti Bayer, 1961 accepted as Ellisella schmitti (Bayer, 1961) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125299 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Nicella Gray, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125299 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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