African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Melithaeidae Gray, 1870

AphiaID

196230 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196230)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Typetaxon

Melithaea Milne Edwards, 1857

Parent

Malacalcyonacea

Synonymised names

Melitodidae · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Subfamily Melithaeinae Alderslade, 2006

  » Genus Melithaea Milne Edwards, 1857
  » Genus Acabaria Gray, 1859 accepted as Melithaea Milne Edwards, 1857 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  » Genus Wrightella Gray, 1870 accepted as Melithaea Milne Edwards, 1857 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Genus Solenocaulon Gray, 1862

Environment

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

Original description

Gray, J. E. (1870). Catalogue of Lithophytes or stony corals in the collection of the British Museum. pp. 1-51., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23832271
page(s): 3 [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.; Cordeiro, R.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2022). World List of Octocorallia. Melithaeidae Gray, 1870. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2022) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas%20/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196230 on 2023-03-26

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) (2023). African Register of Marine Species. Melithaeidae Gray, 1870. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196230 on 2023-03-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-12-30 14:07:12Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-09-15 12:49:54Z

changed

van Ofwegen, Leen

2022-11-04 04:15:53Z

changed

McFadden, Cathy

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original description Gray, J. E. (1870). Catalogue of Lithophytes or stony corals in the collection of the British Museum. pp. 1-51., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23832271
page(s): 3 [details]

basis of record Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

redescription McFadden, C.S.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Quattrini, A.M. (2022). Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics. <em>Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists.</em> 1(3), 8735, pp. 1-79., available online at https://ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb/article/view/8735
page(s): 39 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To Genbank
To ITIS