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WoRMS name details

Lignella Gray, 1870

AphiaID

267551 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267551)

Classification

Status

uncertain > nomen dubium

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Gorgonia richardii Lamouroux, 1816 accepted as Lignella richardii (Lamouroux, 1816)

Parent

Keroeididae Kinoshita, 1910

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Species Lignella hartogi van Ofwegen, 1990 accepted as Pseudothelogorgia hartogi (van Ofwegen, 1990) (original combination)
Species Lignella richardii (Lamouroux, 1816) (uncertain > nomen dubium)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Gray, J.E. (1870). Notes on some new genera and species of alcyonoid corals in the British Museum. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. (4) 5: 405-408., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16355608
page(s): 407-408 [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Lignella Gray, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267551 on 2025-05-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-14 11:18:07Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2010-09-15 12:49:54Z

changed

van Ofwegen, Leen

2019-06-13 15:37:37Z

changed

Cordeiro, Ralf

2021-05-28 15:33:03Z

changed

McFadden, Cathy

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Gray, J.E. (1870). Notes on some new genera and species of alcyonoid corals in the British Museum. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. (4) 5: 405-408., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16355608
page(s): 407-408 [details]

basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]

Taxonomy

status source Bayer, F. M. (1991). Thelogorgia, a new genus of gorgonacean octocorals, with descriptions of four new species from the western Atlantic. Bulletin of marine science. 49(1-2), 506-537.
page(s): 506-508; note: The identity of the type species Gorgonia richardsonii Lamouroux cannot be confirmed in the absence of a type specimen [details] Available for editors

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Other

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Language	Name
Japanese	コエダモドキ属	[details]

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