UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Platyzoanthus mussoides Saville-Kent, 1893

WoRMS taxon details

Platyzoanthus mussoides Saville-Kent, 1893

AphiaID

290775 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290775)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Platyzoanthus Saville-Kent, 1893

Original name

Platyzoanthus mussoides Saville-Kent, 1893

Synonymised names

Actinotryx mussoides (Saville-Kent, 1893) · unaccepted

Rhodactis mussoides (Saville-Kent, 1893) · unaccepted

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Saville-Kent W (1893) The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its products and potentialities, pp. 1-387, pls. 1-48, chromo pls. 1-16. Allen & Co., London., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10697730
page(s): 155 [details]

Type data

Note Type species of *Platyzoanthus* by monotypy....

Type species Type species of *Platyzoanthus* by monotypy. Nomen dubium according to den Hartog (1980). [details]

Taxonomic citation

Daly, M.; Fautin, D.G. (2013). World List of Corallimorpharia. Platyzoanthus mussoides Saville-Kent, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290775 on 2025-05-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-01-21 13:45:25Z

changed

van der Land, Jacob

2012-01-02 10:37:42Z

changed

Fautin, Daphne

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Saville-Kent W (1893) The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its products and potentialities, pp. 1-387, pls. 1-48, chromo pls. 1-16. Allen & Co., London., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10697730
page(s): 155 [details]

basis of record Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Other

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

additional source den Hartog, J. C. & van der Land, J. (2000-2007). As a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1980). Caribbean Shallow Water Corallimorpharia. Zoologische Verhandelingen, (176): 83 pp.
page(s): 39 [details]

additional source Fautin, D. G.; Zelenchuk, T.; Raveendran, D. (2007). Genera of orders Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Hexacorallia), and their type species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1668: 183-244., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.12
page(s): 235 [details] Available for editors

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Type species Type species of *Platyzoanthus* by monotypy. Nomen dubium according to den Hartog (1980). [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
English	metallic mushroom anemone [from synonym]leaf mushroom anemone [from synonym]elephant ear [from synonym]	[details]
German	Gewelltes Elefantenohr [from synonym]	[details]

To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) (from synonym Rhodactis mussoides (Saville-Kent, 1893))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Platyzoanthus mussoides)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 32 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (1 record) (from synonym Rhodactis mussoides (Saville-Kent, 1893))