UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Lophogorgia crista M�bius, 1861

WoRMS name details

Lophogorgia crista Möbius, 1861

AphiaID

291900 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:291900)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted name

Leptogorgia palma crista (Pallas, 1766)

Rank

Species

Parent

Lophogorgia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 accepted as Leptogorgia Milne Edwards, 1857

Original name

Lophogorgia crista Möbius, 1861

Environment

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

Original description

Möbius, K. (1861). Neue Gorgoniden des naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg. Novorum actorum Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum. 29(6): 1-12, plates 1-2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45613453
page(s): 8 [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Lophogorgia crista Möbius, 1861. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=291900 on 2025-05-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-21 13:45:25Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2010-09-17 06:17:46Z

checked

van Ofwegen, Leen

2023-05-07 03:59:32Z

changed

McFadden, Cathy

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Möbius, K. (1861). Neue Gorgoniden des naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg. Novorum actorum Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum. 29(6): 1-12, plates 1-2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45613453
page(s): 8 [details]

Taxonomy

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

Other

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

additional source Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 322 [details] Available for editors

[request]

additional source Thomson, J.A.; Henderson, W.D. (1906). The marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa, from collections made by Cyril Crossland, M.A., B.Sc., F.Z.S., in the years 1901 and 1902 -- Alcyonaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1906, 393-442, plates 26-31., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32051773
page(s): 395, 431, 432, 433, 443 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (Holotype USNM 1013322)