WoRMS taxon details
Cirrhipathes de Blainville, 1830
204279 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204279)
accepted
Genus
Gorgonia spiralis Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Cirrhipathes spiralis (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by subsequent designation)
Antipathes (Cirripathes) de Blainville, 1830 · unaccepted
Cirripathes de Blainville, 1830 · unaccepted (spelling mistake)
Cirripathes (Eucirripathes) van Pesch, 1914 · unaccepted
Cirripathes (Eucirripathes) spiralis (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted > superseded combination
- Species Cirrhipathes anguina (Dana, 1846)
- Species Cirrhipathes contorta van Pesch, 1910
- Species Cirrhipathes densiflora Silberfeld, 1909
- Species Cirrhipathes diversa Brook, 1889
- Species Cirrhipathes gardineri Cooper, 1903
- Species Cirrhipathes hainanensis Zou & Zhou, 1982
- Species Cirrhipathes indica Summers, 1910
- Species Cirrhipathes musculosa van Pesch, 1910
- Species Cirrhipathes nana van Pesch, 1910
- Species Cirrhipathes propinqua Brook, 1889
- Species Cirrhipathes rumphii van Pesch, 1910
- Species Cirrhipathes secchini Echeverria, 2002
- Species Cirrhipathes sinensis Zou & Zhou, 1984
- Species Cirrhipathes spiralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Cirrhipathes translucens van Pesch, 1910
- Species Cirrhipathes desbonni Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Allopathes desbonni (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (new combination)
- Species Cirrhipathes filiformis Gray, 1868 accepted as Stichopathes filiformis (Gray, 1868) (superseded combination)
- Species Cirrhipathes flagellum Brook, 1889 accepted as Stichopathes bispinosa Summers, 1910 (junior homonym)
- Species Cirrhipathes lutkeni (Brook, 1889) accepted as Stichopathes luetkeni Brook, 1889 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Cirrhipathes paucispina Brook, 1889 accepted as Aphanostichopathes paucispina (Brook, 1889) (new combination)
- Species Cirrhipathes ramosa van Pesch, 1910 accepted as Hillopathes ramosa (van Pesch, 1910) (new combination)
- Species Cirrhipathes sieboldi Blainville, 1834 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
de Blainville, H. M. (1830). Zoophytes. In: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traitre méthodiquement des differéns êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utlité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Edited by F. G. Levrault. Tome 60. Paris, Le Normat. Pp. 548, pls. 68. <em>Paris, 1830.</em> 60 : 1-546., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25318344
page(s): 475-476 [details]
page(s): 475-476 [details]
Molodtsova, T.; Opresko, D. (2026). World List of Antipatharia. Cirrhipathes de Blainville, 1830. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204279 on 2026-03-27
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Nomenclature
original description
de Blainville, H. M. (1830). Zoophytes. In: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traitre méthodiquement des differéns êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utlité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Edited by F. G. Levrault. Tome 60. Paris, Le Normat. Pp. 548, pls. 68. <em>Paris, 1830.</em> 60 : 1-546., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25318344
page(s): 475-476 [details]
original description (of Cirripathes (Eucirripathes) van Pesch, 1914) van Pesch, A. J. 1914. The Antipatharia of the Siboga Expedition.Siboga-Expeditie Monographes. 17: 1-258, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/t.173163
page(s): 146-149 [details]
basis of record Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
page(s): 475-476 [details]
original description (of Cirripathes (Eucirripathes) van Pesch, 1914) van Pesch, A. J. 1914. The Antipatharia of the Siboga Expedition.Siboga-Expeditie Monographes. 17: 1-258, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/t.173163
page(s): 146-149 [details]
basis of record Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Other
additional source
Molodtsova T.N. 2005. A new species of Saropathes (Antipatharia: Anthozoa: Cnidaria) from the Norfolk Ridge (South-West Pacific, New Caledonia) - Zoosystema, 27 (4): 699-707.
page(s): 705, 706 [details]
additional source van Pesch, A. J. 1914. The Antipatharia of the Siboga Expedition.Siboga-Expeditie Monographes. 17: 1-258, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/t.173163
page(s): 8, 147, 148, 170, 173 [details]
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
[request]
additional source Pasternak, F.A. (1964). The deep-sea pennatularians and antipatharians obtained by R/S 'Vitjaz' in the Indian Ocean and the resemblance between the faunas of the pennatularians of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. <em>Trudy Inst. Okeanol. Moskva.</em> 69: 183-215.
page(s): 200, 204 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Maragos, J. E.; Siciliano, D.; Gulko, D.; VanRavenswaay, D.; Potts, D. C.; Aeby, G. (2004). Nihoa Island coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000, and Rapture 2000 and 2002 sites [Table 1]. Unpublished. [details]
additional source Paulay, G.; Puglisi, M. P.; Starmer, J. A. (2003). The non-scleractinian Anthozoa (Cnidaria) of the Mariana Islands. Micronesica, 35-36, 138-155
page(s): 149 [details]
additional source Maragos, J. E.; Schmerfeld, J. (2004). Coral survey from Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge, 1998-2004 [Table 3]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details]
additional source Maragos, J. E.; VanRavenswaay, D.; Gulko, D. (2004). French Frigate Shoals coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Rapture 2000 and 2002, and 2003 Sette surveys [Table 1]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details]
additional source Gasparini, J. L.; Floeter, S. R.; Ferreira, C. E. L.; Sazima, I. (2005). Marine ornamental trade in Brazil. Biodiversity and Conservation, 14, 2883-2899, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-004-0222-1
page(s): 2896 [details]
additional source Reed, J. K.; Weaver, D. C.; Pomponi, S. A. (2006). Habitat and fauna of deep-water Lophelia pertusa coral reefs off the southeastern U.S.: Blake Plateau, Straits of Florida, and Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science, 78, 2, 343-375
page(s): 367 [details]
additional source Wagner, D.; Papastamatiou, Y. P.; Kosaki, R. K.; Gleason, K. A.; McFall, G. B.; Boland, R. C.; Pyle, R. L.; Toonen, R. J. (2011). New records of commercially valuable black corals (Cnidaria: Antipatharia) from the northwestern Hawaiian Islands at mesophotic depths. Pacific Science, 65(2): 249-255, available online at https://doi.org/10.2984/65.2.249
page(s): 251 [details]
page(s): 705, 706 [details]
additional source van Pesch, A. J. 1914. The Antipatharia of the Siboga Expedition.Siboga-Expeditie Monographes. 17: 1-258, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/t.173163
page(s): 8, 147, 148, 170, 173 [details]
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
[request]additional source Pasternak, F.A. (1964). The deep-sea pennatularians and antipatharians obtained by R/S 'Vitjaz' in the Indian Ocean and the resemblance between the faunas of the pennatularians of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. <em>Trudy Inst. Okeanol. Moskva.</em> 69: 183-215.
page(s): 200, 204 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Maragos, J. E.; Siciliano, D.; Gulko, D.; VanRavenswaay, D.; Potts, D. C.; Aeby, G. (2004). Nihoa Island coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000, and Rapture 2000 and 2002 sites [Table 1]. Unpublished. [details]
additional source Paulay, G.; Puglisi, M. P.; Starmer, J. A. (2003). The non-scleractinian Anthozoa (Cnidaria) of the Mariana Islands. Micronesica, 35-36, 138-155
page(s): 149 [details]
additional source Maragos, J. E.; Schmerfeld, J. (2004). Coral survey from Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge, 1998-2004 [Table 3]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details]
additional source Maragos, J. E.; VanRavenswaay, D.; Gulko, D. (2004). French Frigate Shoals coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Rapture 2000 and 2002, and 2003 Sette surveys [Table 1]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details]
additional source Gasparini, J. L.; Floeter, S. R.; Ferreira, C. E. L.; Sazima, I. (2005). Marine ornamental trade in Brazil. Biodiversity and Conservation, 14, 2883-2899, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-004-0222-1
page(s): 2896 [details]
additional source Reed, J. K.; Weaver, D. C.; Pomponi, S. A. (2006). Habitat and fauna of deep-water Lophelia pertusa coral reefs off the southeastern U.S.: Blake Plateau, Straits of Florida, and Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science, 78, 2, 343-375
page(s): 367 [details]
additional source Wagner, D.; Papastamatiou, Y. P.; Kosaki, R. K.; Gleason, K. A.; McFall, G. B.; Boland, R. C.; Pyle, R. L.; Toonen, R. J. (2011). New records of commercially valuable black corals (Cnidaria: Antipatharia) from the northwestern Hawaiian Islands at mesophotic depths. Pacific Science, 65(2): 249-255, available online at https://doi.org/10.2984/65.2.249
page(s): 251 [details]
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