WoRMS taxon details
Gersemia rubiformis (Ehrenberg, 1834)
AphiaID: 156103
AphiaID: 156103
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Alcyoniina (Suborder) > Nephtheidae (Family) > Gersemia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Gersemia Marenzeller, 1877 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Capnella rubiformis (Ehrenberg, 1834) Eunephthya rubiformis (Ehrenberg, 1834) Lobularia rubiformis Eherenberg, 1834 (Basionym) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: L.P. van Ofwegen, S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds), 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] additional source: Watling, L., P. Auster (2005). Distribution of deep-water Alcyonacea off the Northeast Coast of the United States. In: Freiwald, A., R.J. Murray, editors. Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems. Proceedings of the Second Deep-Sea Coral Symposium, Erlangen, Germany, September 2003. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp 279-296. [details] from synonym: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Logan, A. 1998. A sublittoral hard substrate epibenthic community below 30 m in Head Harbour Passage, New Brunswick, Canada. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 27: 445-459. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Madsen, F.J. 1944. Octocorallia (Stolonifera - Telestacea - Xeniidae - Alcyonacea - Gorgonacea). The Danish Ingolf-Expedition, Vol. V. Bianco Luno A/S. Copenhagen. 65 p. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Bermuda [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Digby [details] East Atlantic [details] FAO fishing area 18 [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Hudson Strait [details] Joes Point [details] Manicouagan [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Tropical Indo-Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (21 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Arctic to Cape Hatteras; Cobscook Bay; Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Habitat: sandy, muddy, or rocky habitats; also may attached themselves to hard parts or products of other organisms (shells) [details] Spelling: Also spelled as Gersemia rubriformis. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156103 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Gersemia rubiformis (Ehrenberg, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156103 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||||||||
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