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Plumarella Gray, 1870

177839  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177839)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Octocorallia (Class)
  6. Scleralcyonacea (Order)
  7. Primnoidae (Family)
  8. Plumarella (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Cricogorgia Milne Edwards, 1857 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Dicholaphis Kinoshita, 1907 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Plumarella (Dicholaphis) Kinoshita, 1907 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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  1. Species Plumarella aculeata Cairns & Bayer, 2004
  2. Species Plumarella acuminata Kinoshita, 1908
  3. Species Plumarella adhaerans Nutting, 1912
  4. Species Plumarella alba Kinoshita, 1908
  5. Species Plumarella aleutiana Cairns, 2011
  6. Species Plumarella alternata (Nutting, 1912)
  7. Species Plumarella aurea (Deichmann, 1936)
  8. Species Plumarella bayeri (Zapata-Guardiola & Lopez-González, 2010)
  9. Species Plumarella circumoperculum Cairns, 2010
  10. Species Plumarella cordilla Cairns, 2016
  11. Species Plumarella delicata (Kinoshita, 1907)
  12. Species Plumarella delicatissima Wright & Studer, 1889
  13. Species Plumarella dentata Thomson & Russell, 1909
  14. Species Plumarella dichotoma Cairns & Bayer, 2004
  15. Species Plumarella dofleini Kükenthal & Gorzawsky, 1908
  16. Species Plumarella echinata Cairns, 2011
  17. Species Plumarella flabellata Versluys, 1906
  18. Species Plumarella gracilis Kinoshita, 1908
  19. Species Plumarella hapala Cairns, 2011
  20. Species Plumarella laevis Thomson & Mackinnon, 1911
  21. Species Plumarella lata Kükenthal & Gorzawsky, 1908
  22. Species Plumarella laxiramosa Cairns & Bayer, 2004
  23. Species Plumarella longispina Kinoshita, 1908
  24. Species Plumarella nuttingi Cairns, 2011
  25. Species Plumarella pellucida Cairns & Bayer, 2004
  26. Species Plumarella penna (Lamarck, 1815)
  27. Species Plumarella pourtalesii (Verrill, 1883)
  28. Species Plumarella profunda Cairns, 2011
  29. Species Plumarella recta (Nutting, 1912)
  30. Species Plumarella rigida Kükenthal & Gorzawsky, 1908
  31. Species Plumarella robusta Cairns, 2011
  32. Species Plumarella spicata Nutting, 1912
  33. Species Plumarella spinosa Kinoshita, 1907
  34. Species Plumarella superba (Nutting, 1912)
  35. Species Plumarella williamsi Cairns & Rodriguez-Bermudez, 2024
  36. Subgenus Plumarella (Dicholaphis) Kinoshita, 1907 accepted as Plumarella Gray, 1870 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
    1. Species Plumarella (Dicholaphis) cordilla Cairns, 2016 accepted as Plumarella cordilla Cairns, 2016 (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
    2. Species Plumarella (Dicholaphis) delicata Kinoshita, 1907 accepted as Plumarella delicata (Kinoshita, 1907) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  37. Subgenus Plumarella (Faxiella) Zapata-Guardiola & López-González, 2012 accepted as Faxiella Zapata-Guardiola & López-González, 2012 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
    1. Species Plumarella (Faxiella) abietina (Studer, 1894) accepted as Faxiella abietina (Studer, 1894) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
    2. Species Plumarella (Faxiella) delicatula (Thomson & Rennet, 1931) accepted as Faxiella delicatula (Thomson & Rennett, 1913) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  38. Subgenus Plumarella (Verticillata) Zapata-Guardiola, López-González & Gili, 2013 accepted as Verticillata Zapata-Guardiola, López-González & Gili, 2013 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
    1. Species Plumarella (Verticillata) castellviae Zapata-Guardiola, López-González & Gili, 2013 accepted as Verticillata castellviae (Zapata-Guardiola, López-González & Gili, 2013) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
  39. Species Plumarella abietina (Studer, 1894) accepted as Faxiella abietina (Studer, 1894) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  40. Species Plumarella carinata Kinoshita, 1908 accepted as Acanthoprimnoa cristata (Kükenthal & Gorzawsky, 1908) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  41. Species Plumarella castellviae Zapata-Guardiola, López-González & Gili, 2013 accepted as Verticillata castellviae (Zapata-Guardiola, López-González & Gili, 2013) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  42. Species Plumarella corruscans Thomson & Mackinnon, 1911 accepted as Pseudoplumarella corruscans (Thomson & Mackinnon, 1911) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
  43. Species Plumarella cristata Kükenthal & Gorzawsky, 1908 accepted as Acanthoprimnoa cristata (Kükenthal & Gorzawsky, 1908) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
  44. Species Plumarella diadema (Cairns, 2006) accepted as Thouarella (Thouarella) diadema Cairns, 2006 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  45. Species Plumarella filicoides Thomson & Mackinnon, 1911 accepted as Pseudoplumarella filicoides (Thomson & Mackinnon, 1911) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
  46. Species Plumarella goesi Aurivillius, 1931 accepted as Acanthoprimnoa goesi (Aurivillius, 1931) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
  47. Species Plumarella grimaldii Studer, 1890 accepted as Callogorgia verticillata var. grimaldii (Studer, 1890) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
  48. Species Plumarella hilgendorfi Studer, 1878 accepted as Thouarella (Euthouarella) hilgendorfi (Studer, 1879) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
  49. Species Plumarella serta Kükenthal & Gorzawsky, 1908 accepted as Acanthoprimnoa serta (Kükenthal & Gorzawsky, 1908) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
  50. Species Plumarella thetis Thomson & Mackinnon, 1911 accepted as Pseudoplumarella thetis (Thomson & Mackinnon, 1911) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
  51. Species Plumarella undulata (Zapata-Guardiola & López-González, 2010) accepted as Thouarella (Thouarella) undulata Zapata-Guardiola & López-González, 2010 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  52. Species Plumarella versluysi Thomson & Mackinnon, 1911 accepted as Pseudoplumarella versluysi (Thomson & Mackinnon, 1911) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
  53. Species Plumarella australis Briggs, 1915 (uncertain > unassessed, original combination)
  54. Species Plumarella spinosa Kükenthal & Gorzawsky, 1908 (uncertain > unassessed)
marine, terrestrial
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): 36 [details] 
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Plumarella Gray, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=177839 on 2025-05-15
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2005-07-27 08:37:00Z
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2009-07-17 06:36:15Z
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Hoeksema, Bert

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Nomenclature

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): 36 [details] 

original description (of Dicholaphis Kinoshita, 1907) Kinoshita, K. (1907). Vorläufige Mitteilung über einige neue japanische Primnoid-Korallen. <em>Annotationes zoologicae japonenses.</em> 6(3): 229-237., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44258411
page(s): 230-231 [details] 

original description (of Cricogorgia Milne Edwards, 1857) Milne Edwards H. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits; par H. Milne-Edwards. <em>Atlas, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris.</em> pls. A1-A6, B1-B2, c1-C2, D1-D12, E1-E3, F1-F4, G1-G2., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11574
page(s): Figure B2.6 [details] 

basis of record Watling, L.; Auster, P. (2005). Distribution of deep-water Alcyonacea off the Northeast Coast of the United States. In: Freiwald, A., R.J. Murray, editors. Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems. <em>Proceedings of the Second Deep-Sea Coral Symposium.</em> 279-296. [details] 

Other

additional source Bayer, F. M. (1996). The Antarctic genus Callozostron and its relationship to Primnoella (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea: Primnoidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 109(1): 150-203., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34644751
page(s): 163 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Cairns, S.D. & F.M. Bayer. (2009). A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Primnoidae (Cnidaria:Octocorallia). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington DC (USA).</em> 629:1-79. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 255 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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): 293, 348 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Bayer, F. M. (1982). Some new and old species of the primnoid genus Callogorgia Gray, with a revalidation of the related genus Fanellia Gray (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 95(1): 116–160.
page(s): 117 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Bayer, F. M. (1988). Mirostenella articulata, a remarkable new genus and species of Primnoid Octocoral (Gorgonacea) with uncalcified axial nodes. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 101(2): 251-256.
page(s): 254 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Horvath, E. A. (2019). A review of gorgonian coral species (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) held in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History research collection: focus on species from Scleraxonia, Holaxonia, Calcaxonia – Part III: Suborder Holaxonia continued, and suborder Calcaxonia. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 860: 183-306., available online at https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/34317/ [details] 

additional source Hickson, S. J. (1930). On the classification of the Alcyonaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, XIV, 229-252
page(s): 250 [details] 

additional source Belcik, F. P. (1977). A distribution study of the Octocorallia of Oregon. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 24(1-3): 49-52
page(s): 51 [details] 

additional source Grigg, R. W. & F.M. Bayer. (1976). Present knowledge of the systematics and zoogeography of the order Gorgonacea in Hawaii. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 30(2): 167-175.
page(s): 170 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
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Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
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Japanese ウミハネウチワ属  [details]
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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Plumarella) 
To Genbank 
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Unreviewed
Black coral diversity
Black coral diversity
Plumarella sp., 494 m West Florida Escarpment, Gulf of Mexico. Photograph courtesy of NOAA-Pelagic Research Services. Identification by P. Etnoyer and D. Wagner.
Plumarella sp., 438 m Gulf of Mexico Image courtesy of NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2012 Expedition.

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