Marine Species Traits - Heteranthus Klunzinger, 1877

WoRMS taxon details

Heteranthus Klunzinger, 1877

AphiaID

267481 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267481)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Heteranthus verruculatus Klunzinger, 1877 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Heteranthidae Carlgren, 1900

Original name

Heteranthus Klunzinger, 1877

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Species Heteranthus verruculatus Klunzinger, 1877
Species Heteranthus floridus (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Ricordea florida Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
Species Heteranthus insignis Carlgren, 1943 accepted as Heteranthus verruculatus Klunzinger, 1877 (junior synonym of Heteranthus verruculatus (Yap et al 2020))
Species Heteranthus verraculatis accepted as Heteranthus verruculatus Klunzinger, 1877
Species Heteranthus verriculatus accepted as Heteranthus verruculatus Klunzinger, 1877

Environment

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

Original description

Klunzinger, C. B. (1877). Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres. 1: Die Alcyonarien und Malacodermen. Gutmann'schen Buchhandlung. Berlin. pp. 98., available online at https://books.google.com/books/about/Die_Korallenthiere_des_rothen_Meeres.html?id=MxJXkgAACAAJ [details]

Taxonomic citation

Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Heteranthus Klunzinger, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267481 on 2025-05-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-14 11:18:07Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2015-10-06 13:36:17Z

changed

Fautin, Daphne

2020-09-22 17:40:09Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2020-12-16 14:33:38Z

changed

Rodríguez, Estefanía

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Klunzinger, C. B. (1877). Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres. 1: Die Alcyonarien und Malacodermen. Gutmann'schen Buchhandlung. Berlin. pp. 98., available online at https://books.google.com/books/about/Die_Korallenthiere_des_rothen_Meeres.html?id=MxJXkgAACAAJ [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]

Other

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Doumenc D. & Foubert A. (1984). Microinformatique et taxonomie des actinies: Cle mondiale des genres. Annales de l'Institut Océanographique, 60, 1, 43-86.
page(s): 56, 65, 72, 76, 82 [details]

additional source Delage, Y.; Hérouard, E. (1901). Traité de zoologie concrète. Tome II – Deuxième partie. Les coelentérés. Paris: Schleicher Frères. 848 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52123450
page(s): 537 [details]

additional source Carlgren, O. (1949). A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungliga Svenska Vet- enskapsakadamiens Handlingar. 1: 1–121.
page(s): 75 [details]

additional source Yap, N. W. L.; Quek, Z. B. R.; Tan, R.; Nugroho, D. A.; Lee, J. N.; Berumen, M. L.; Tan, K. S.; Huang, D. (2020). Carlgren's hesitation allayed: redescription and systematics of Heteranthus verruculatus Klunzinger, 1877 (Cnidaria, Actiniaria), with a redefinition of Heteranthidae Carlgren, 1900. Contributions to Zoology. 1-28., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/18759866-bja10015 [details]

additional source Doumenc, D. A. (1973). Notes sur les actinies de Polynésie Française. Cahiers du Pacifique, (17): 173-204
page(s): 197 [details]

additional source Carlgren, O. (1945). Further contributions to the knowledge of the cnidom in the Anthozoa especially in the Actiniaria. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets Handlingar, 56, N.F., (9): 1-24
page(s): 22 [details]

additional source Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
page(s): 699 [details]

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Heteranthus)