URMO taxon details
Eunicea Lamouroux, 1816
291322 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:291322)
accepted
Genus
- Species Eunicea aspera Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
- Species Eunicea asperula Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857
- Species Eunicea calyculata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
- Species Eunicea castelnaudi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857
- Species Eunicea clavigera Bayer, 1961
- Species Eunicea distans Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
- Species Eunicea flexuosa (Lamouroux, 1821)
- Species Eunicea fusca Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
- Species Eunicea hicksoni Stiasny, 1935
- Species Eunicea hirta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
- Species Eunicea knighti Bayer, 1961
- Species Eunicea laciniata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
- Species Eunicea laxispica (Lamarck, 1815)
- Species Eunicea mammosa Lamouroux, 1816
- Species Eunicea pallida Garcia Parrado & Alcolado, 1996
- Species Eunicea palmeri Bayer, 1961
- Species Eunicea pinta Bayer & Deichmann, 1958
- Species Eunicea stromyeri Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
- Species Eunicea succinea (Pallas, 1766)
- Species Eunicea tourneforti Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857
- Species Eunicea citrina Valenciennes, 1855 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
- Species Eunicea echinata Valenciennes, 1855 accepted as Muricea echinata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
- Species Eunicea esperi Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 accepted as Eunicea mammosa Lamouroux, 1816 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Eunicea gracilis Valenciennes, 1855 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
- Species Eunicea heteropora (Lamarck, 1815) accepted as Plexaurella grisea Kunze, 1916 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Eunicea humilis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 accepted as Muriceopsis sulphurea (Donovan, 1825) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Eunicea inexpectata Stiasny, 1939 accepted as Muriceopsis tuberculata (Esper, 1792) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Eunicea lugubris Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 accepted as Eunicea laciniata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Eunicea madrepora (Dana, 1846) accepted as Eunicea mammosa Lamouroux, 1816 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Eunicea multicauda (Lamarck, 1815) accepted as Eunicea calyculata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Eunicea sayoti Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 accepted as Eunicea tourneforti f. atra Verrill, 1901 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, uncertain synonym)
- Species Eunicea sparsiflora Kunze, 1916 accepted as Eunicea calyculata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Lamouroux, J. V. F. (1816). Histoire des polypiers corallig�nes flexibles, vulgairement nomm�s zoophytes. <em>F. Poisson, Caen.</em> i-lxxxiv, 1-558, pls. I-XIX., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11606092 [details] 
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2024). World List of Octocorallia. Eunicea Lamouroux, 1816. Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=291322 on 2024-05-19
Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Eunicea Lamouroux, 1816. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=291322 on 2024-05-19
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Lamouroux, J. V. F. (1816). Histoire des polypiers corallig�nes flexibles, vulgairement nomm�s zoophytes. <em>F. Poisson, Caen.</em> i-lxxxiv, 1-558, pls. I-XIX., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11606092 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source Grajales V.A., Aguilar C., S�nchez J. (2007). Phylogenetic reconstruction using secondary structures of Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS2, rDNA): finding the molecular and morphological gap in Caribbean gorgonian corals. <em>BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 90.</em>
page(s): 3, 4, 5, 8 [details]
additional source K�kenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 118-119 [details] Available for editors
additional source Bayer, F.M. (1961). The shallow-water Octocorallia of the West Indian region. A manual for marine biologists. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and Other Caribbean Islands.</em> 12:1-373, pls. 1-23., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506065
page(s): 5, 124, 160-161, 325 [details] Available for editors
additional source Bayer, F. M. (1991). Thelogorgia, a new genus of gorgonacean octocorals, with descriptions of four new species from the western Atlantic. <em>Bulletin of marine science.</em> 49(1-2), 506-537.
page(s): 507 [details] Available for editors
additional source Bayer, F.M. (1955). Contributions to the nomenclature, systematics, and morphology of the Octocorallia. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 105: 207-220, plates 1-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15705299
page(s): 212; note: designation of Eunicea mammosa Lamouroux, 1816 as genolectotype of the genus [details] Available for editors
additional source Hickson, S. J. (1930). On the classification of the Alcyonaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, XIV, 229-252
page(s): 248 [details]
additional source Lasker, H. R.; Coffroth, M. (1983). Octocoral distributions at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 13, 21-28
page(s): 23-25 [details]
additional source Wirshing, H. H.; Messing, C. G.; Douady, C. J.; Reed, J. K.; Stanhope, M. J. (2005). Molecular evidence for multiple lineages in the gorgonian family Plexauridae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia). Marine Biology, 147, 497-508
page(s): 499, 500, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507 [details]
additional source S�nchez, J. A.; Wirshing, H. H. (2005). A field key to the identification of tropical western Atlantic zooxanthellate octocorals (Octocorallia: Cnidaria). Caribbean Journal of Science, 41(3): 508-522
page(s): 515-519 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source Grajales V.A., Aguilar C., S�nchez J. (2007). Phylogenetic reconstruction using secondary structures of Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS2, rDNA): finding the molecular and morphological gap in Caribbean gorgonian corals. <em>BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 90.</em>
page(s): 3, 4, 5, 8 [details]
additional source K�kenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 118-119 [details] Available for editors
additional source Bayer, F.M. (1961). The shallow-water Octocorallia of the West Indian region. A manual for marine biologists. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and Other Caribbean Islands.</em> 12:1-373, pls. 1-23., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506065
page(s): 5, 124, 160-161, 325 [details] Available for editors
additional source Bayer, F. M. (1991). Thelogorgia, a new genus of gorgonacean octocorals, with descriptions of four new species from the western Atlantic. <em>Bulletin of marine science.</em> 49(1-2), 506-537.
page(s): 507 [details] Available for editors
additional source Bayer, F.M. (1955). Contributions to the nomenclature, systematics, and morphology of the Octocorallia. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 105: 207-220, plates 1-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15705299
page(s): 212; note: designation of Eunicea mammosa Lamouroux, 1816 as genolectotype of the genus [details] Available for editors
additional source Hickson, S. J. (1930). On the classification of the Alcyonaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, XIV, 229-252
page(s): 248 [details]
additional source Lasker, H. R.; Coffroth, M. (1983). Octocoral distributions at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 13, 21-28
page(s): 23-25 [details]
additional source Wirshing, H. H.; Messing, C. G.; Douady, C. J.; Reed, J. K.; Stanhope, M. J. (2005). Molecular evidence for multiple lineages in the gorgonian family Plexauridae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia). Marine Biology, 147, 497-508
page(s): 499, 500, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507 [details]
additional source S�nchez, J. A.; Wirshing, H. H. (2005). A field key to the identification of tropical western Atlantic zooxanthellate octocorals (Octocorallia: Cnidaria). Caribbean Journal of Science, 41(3): 508-522
page(s): 515-519 [details]
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