UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Heteropolypus ritteri (Nutting, 1909)

WoRMS taxon details

Heteropolypus ritteri (Nutting, 1909)

AphiaID

724715 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:724715)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Heteropolypus Tixier-Durivault, 1964

Original name

Anthomastus ritteri Nutting, 1909

Synonymised names

Anthomastus ritteri Nutting, 1909 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Anthomastus ritteri Nutting, 1909) Nutting, C.C. (1909). Alcyonaria of the Californian coast. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 35: 681-727, plates 84-91., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7495540
page(s): 687-688 [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Heteropolypus ritteri (Nutting, 1909). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724715 on 2025-05-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2013-04-12 11:50:49Z

created

van Ofwegen, Leen

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Anthomastus ritteri Nutting, 1909) Nutting, C.C. (1909). Alcyonaria of the Californian coast. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 35: 681-727, plates 84-91., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7495540
page(s): 687-688 [details]

new combination reference Molodtsova, T.N., 2013. Deep-sea mushroom soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae) of the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Marine Biology Research 9 (5-6): 488-515. [details] Available for editors

[request]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	Ritter's soft coral	[details]
French	corail de Ritter	[details]

To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) (from synonym Anthomastus ritteri Nutting, 1909)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Anthomastus ritteri Nutting, 1909)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Heteropolypus ritteri)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Anthomastus ritteri Nutting, 1909)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (8 records) (from synonym Anthomastus ritteri Nutting, 1909)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (Holotype USNM 25422) (from synonym Anthomastus ritteri Nutting, 1909)