WoRMS taxon details
Virgularia Lamarck, 1816
AphiaID: 128503
AphiaID: 128503
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Pennatulacea (Order) > Subsessiliflorae (Suborder) > Virgulariidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Parent | Virgulariidae Verrill, 1868 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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] 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.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: Pennatulacea checklist for ERMS2 [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] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Virgularia abies Kölliker, 1870 Species Virgularia agassizi Studer, 1894 Species Virgularia alba (Nutting, 1912) Species Virgularia brochi Kükenthal, 1915 Species Virgularia bromleyi Kölliker, 1880 Species Virgularia densa Tixier-Durivault, 1966 Species Virgularia galapagensis Hickson, 1930 Species Virgularia glacialis Kölliker, 1870 Species Virgularia gracilis Species Virgularia gracillima Kõlliker, 1880 Species Virgularia gustaviana (Herklots, 1863) Species Virgularia halisceptrum Broch, 1910 Species Virgularia juncea (Pallas, 1766) Species Virgularia kophameli May, 1899 Species Virgularia loveni Utinomi, 1971 Species Virgularia mirabilis (Müller, 1776) Species Virgularia presbytes Bayer, 1955 Species Virgularia reinwardti Herklots, 1858 Species Virgularia rumphi Kölliker, 1870 Species Virgularia schultzei Kukenthal, 1910 Species Virgularia tuberculata Marshall, 1883 Species Virgularia patagonica (nomen nudum) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:128503 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Williams, G. (2013). Virgularia Lamarck, 1816. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=128503 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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