UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Antillogorgia bipinnata (Verrill, 1864)

WoRMS taxon details

Antillogorgia bipinnata (Verrill, 1864)

AphiaID

708860 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:708860)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Antillogorgia Bayer, 1951

Original name

Pterogorgia bipinnata Verrill, 1864

Synonymised names

Gorgonia bipinnata (Verrill, 1864) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Pseudoplexaura bipinnata · unaccepted > misapplication (typographical error for...)

typographical error for Pseudopterogorgia bipinnata

Pseudopterogorgia bipinnata (Verrill, 1864) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Pterogorgia bipinnata Verrill, 1864 · unaccepted > superseded combination (original combination)

Pterogorgia bipinnata typica Verrill, 1864 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

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

Original description

(of Pterogorgia bipinnata Verrill, 1864) Verrill, A. E. (1864). List of the polyps and corals sent by the Museum of Comparative Zoology to other institutions in exchange, with annotations. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 1: 29-60., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6587563
page(s): 31 [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Antillogorgia bipinnata (Verrill, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=708860 on 2025-05-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2012-10-15 08:06:54Z

created

van Ofwegen, Leen

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Pterogorgia bipinnata Verrill, 1864) Verrill, A. E. (1864). List of the polyps and corals sent by the Museum of Comparative Zoology to other institutions in exchange, with annotations. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 1: 29-60., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6587563
page(s): 31 [details]

new combination reference Williams, G. C.; Chen, J.-Y. (2012). Resurrection of the octocorallian genus Antillogorgia for Caribbean species previously assigned to Pseudopterogorgia, and a taxonomic assessment of the relationship of these genera with Leptogorgia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Gorgoniidae). Zootaxa. 3505, 39-52. [details]

Other

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

additional source Bayer, F.M. (1957). Additional records of Western Atlantic octocorals. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 47(11): 379-390., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39753773
page(s): 389 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Bayer, F. M. (1954). Anthozoa: Alcyonaria. Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.). 89: 279-284.
page(s): 280 [details] Available for editors

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	forked sea feather [from synonym]bipinnate sea plume [from synonym]	[details]

To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) (from synonym Pseudopterogorgia bipinnata (Verrill, 1864))
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Pterogorgia bipinnata Verrill, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Pseudopterogorgia bipinnata (Verrill, 1864))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Antillogorgia bipinnata)
To GenBank (45 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To GenBank (45 nucleotides; 26 proteins) (from synonym Pterogorgia bipinnata Verrill, 1864)
To GenBank (45 nucleotides; 26 proteins) (from synonym Pseudopterogorgia bipinnata (Verrill, 1864))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (68 records)