WoRMS taxon details
Pennatula Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 128495
AphiaID: 128495
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Pennatulacea (Order) > Subsessiliflorae (Suborder) > Pennatulidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Parent | Pennatulidae Ehrenberg, 1834 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ptilella Gray, 1870 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: Williams, G.C.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia - 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. 105-106 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Pennatulacea checklist for ERMS2 [details] additional source: Williams, G.C. Index Pennatulacea : Annotated bibliography and indexes of the sea pens of the world 1469-2002 (Coelenterata: Octocorallia), available online at http://research.calacademy.org/RESEARCH/izg/index_intro.htm [details] additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Pennatula aculeata Danielssen, 1860 Species Pennatula argentina Acuña & Zamponi, 1992 Species Pennatula bayeri Barreira e Castro & Semaro de Medeiros, 2001 Species Pennatula delicata Tixier-Durivault, 1966 Species Pennatula fimbriata Herklots, 1858 Species Pennatula grandis Ehrenberg, 1834 Species Pennatula indica Thomson & Henderson, 1906 Species Pennatula inflata Kükenthal, 1910 Species Pennatula mollis Alder, 1867 Species Pennatula moseleyi Kölliker, 1880 Species Pennatula murrayi Kolliker, 1880 Species Pennatula naresi Kölliker, 1880 Species Pennatula pearceyi Kölliker, 1880 Species Pennatula phosphorea Linnaeus, 1758 Species Pennatula prolifera Jungersen, 1904 Species Pennatula rubra (Ellis, 1761) Species Pennatula borealis accepted as Pennatula grandis Ehrenberg, 1834 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Links | 3x5 J.S. Ho Taxonomic Card - Pennatula To ITIS | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:128495 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Williams, G. (2013). Pennatula. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=128495 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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