African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Gorgonocephalus Leach, 1815

AfReMaS taxon details

Gorgonocephalus Leach, 1815

AphiaID

123586 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123586)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon of

Gorgonocephalidae Ljungman, 1867
Gorgonocephalinae Döderlein, 1911

Parent

Gorgonocephalinae Döderlein, 1911

Direct children (4)

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Species Gorgonocephalus eucnemis (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Species Gorgonocephalus pustulatum (H.L. Clark, 1916)
Species Gorgonocephalus pectinatus Mortensen, 1933 accepted as Gorgonocephalus pustulatum (H.L. Clark, 1916)
Species Gorgonocephalus verrucosus Grube, 1840 accepted as Astrospartus mediterraneus (Risso, 1826) (synonym)

Environment

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

Original description

Leach, W. E. (1815). The Zoological Miscellany; Being Descriptions of New, or Interesting Animals. R.P. Nodder, London. 2: 1-154, pls. 61-120., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28685302 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2021). World Ophiuroidea Database. Gorgonocephalus Leach, 1815. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123586 on 2024-04-20

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2024). African Register of Marine Species. Gorgonocephalus Leach, 1815. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123586 on 2024-04-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Hansson, Hans

2007-07-12 13:29:01Z

checked

Stöhr, Sabine

2018-04-24 13:31:30Z

changed

Stöhr, Sabine

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original description Leach, W. E. (1815). The Zoological Miscellany; Being Descriptions of New, or Interesting Animals. R.P. Nodder, London. 2: 1-154, pls. 61-120., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28685302 [details]

basis of record Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,. 50: pp. 336-351. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Baker, A. N. (1980). Euryalinid Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Australia, New Zealand, and the south-west Pacific Ocean. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 7, 11-83. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Hansson, H. (2004). North East Atlantic Taxa (NEAT): Nematoda. Internet pdf Ed. Aug 1998., available online at http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/taxa.html [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (33 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 009070.EC)
To YouTube
To ITIS

From other sources

To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 009070.EC)

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