WoRMS taxon details
Melithaea Milne-Edwards, 1857
AphiaID: 205342
AphiaID: 205342
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Scleraxonia (Suborder) > Melithaeidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Melithaeidae Gray, 1870 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Melitodes (synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Goh, N.K.C. & L.M. Chou (1996). An annotated checklist of the gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) of Singapore, with a discussion of the gorgonian diversity in the Indo-West Pacific. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 44 (2): 435-459. [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] from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Melithaea africana (Kükenthal, 1908) Species Melithaea albitincta (Ridley, 1884) Species Melithaea arborea (Kükenthal, 1908) Species Melithaea caledonica Grasshoff, 1999 Species Melithaea densa (Kükenthal, 1908) Species Melithaea esperi (Wright & Studer, 1889) Species Melithaea flabellata (Gray, 1870) Species Melithaea flabellifera (Kükenthal, 1908) Species Melithaea flabellum (Thomson & Mackinnon, 1910) Species Melithaea fragilis (Wright & Studer, 1889) Species Melithaea laevis (Wright & Studer, 1889) Species Melithaea linearis (Gray, 1870) Species Melithaea mertoni (Kükenthal, 1909) Species Melithaea modesta (Nutting, 1911) Species Melithaea moluccana (Kükenthal, 1896) Species Melithaea mutsu (Minobe, 1929) Species Melithaea nodosa (Wright & Studer, 1889) Species Melithaea occidentalis Duchassaing, 1870 Species Melithaea ochracea (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Melithaea ornata (Thomson & Simpson, 1909) Species Melithaea pulchella (Thomson & Simpson, 1909) Species Melithaea rugosa (Wright & Studer, 1889) Species Melithaea splendens (Nutting, 1911) Species Melithaea squamata (Nutting, 1911) Species Melithaea squamosa Nutting Species Melithaea stormii (Studer, 1895) Species Melithaea sulfurea (Studer, 1895) Species Melithaea tenella (Dana, 1846) Species Melithaea thomsoni (Broch, 1916) Species Melithaea variabilis (Hickson, 1905) Species Melithaea virgata (Verrill, 1846) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205342 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Melithaea Milne-Edwards, 1857. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205342 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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