Marine Species Traits - Eunicea (Euniceopsis) tourneforti Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857

WoRMS name details

Eunicea (Euniceopsis) tourneforti Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857

AphiaID

1563578 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1563578)

Classification

Status

alternative representation (subgenus assignment)

Accepted name

Eunicea tourneforti Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857

Rank

Species

Parent

Eunicea (Euniceopsis) Verrill, 1907 represented as Eunicea Lamouroux, 1816

Original name

Eunicea tourneforti Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857

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Forma Eunicea (Euniceopsis) tourneforti f. atra Verrill, 1901 represented as Eunicea tourneforti f. atra Verrill, 1901 (subgenus assignment)
Forma Eunicea (Euniceopsis) tourneforti f. tourneforti Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 represented as Eunicea tourneforti Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857

Environment

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

Original description

(of Eunicea tourneforti Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) Milne Edwards H,. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits. 1. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 326 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12045211
page(s): 150 [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Eunicea (Euniceopsis) tourneforti Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1563578 on 2025-05-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-05-29 10:34:41Z

created

Fautin, Daphne

2022-06-25 23:36:56Z

changed

McFadden, Cathy

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Sources (5)

Nomenclature

original description (of Eunicea tourneforti Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) Milne Edwards H,. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits. 1. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 326 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12045211
page(s): 150 [details]

basis of record Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Other

additional source Grajales V.A., Aguilar C., Sánchez J. (2007). Phylogenetic reconstruction using secondary structures of Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS2, rDNA): finding the molecular and morphological gap in Caribbean gorgonian corals. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 90.
page(s): 1, 3, 4, 5, 8 [details]

additional source Bayer, F.M. (1961). The shallow-water Octocorallia of the West Indian region. A manual for marine biologists. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and Other Caribbean Islands. 12:1-373, pls. 1-23., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506065
page(s): 5, 119, 150, 328, 329, 331, 332, 333, 334, Pl. XIV, XXI [details] Available for editors

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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): 500, 503, 504, 505, 506 [details]