WoRMS taxon details
Acanella Gray, 1870
AphiaID: 125303
AphiaID: 125303
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Calcaxonia (Suborder) > Isididae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Isididae 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 Acanella africana Kükenthal, 1915 Species Acanella arbuscula (Johnson, 1862) Species Acanella chiliensis Wright & Studer, 1889 Species Acanella dispar Bayer, 1990 Species Acanella eburnea (Pourtalès, 1868) Species Acanella furcata Thomson, 1929 Species Acanella gregori (Gray, 1870) Species Acanella microspiculata Aurivillius, 1931 Species Acanella rigida Wright & Studer, 1889 Species Acanella robusta Thomson & Henderson, 1906 Species Acanella verticillata Kükenthal, 1915 Species Acanella weberi Nutting, 1910 Species Acanella giglioti Cecchini, 1914 accepted as Isidella elongata (Esper, 1788) Species Acanella japonica Kükenthal, 1915 accepted as Acanella rigida Wright & Studer, 1889 Species Acanella mediterranea Cecchini, 1914 accepted as Isidella elongata (Esper, 1788) Species Acanella normani Verrill, 1878 accepted as Acanella arbuscula (Johnson, 1862) Species Acanella sibogae Nutting, 1910 accepted as Acanella rigida Wright & Studer, 1889 Species Acanella spiculosa Verrill, 1883 accepted as Acanella eburnea (Pourtalès, 1868) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125303 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Acanella Gray, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125303 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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