Marine Species Traits - Myriopathes Opresko, 2001

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Myriopathes Opresko, 2001

Myriopathes cf. japonica

AphiaID

267609 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267609)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Antipathes myriophylla Pallas, 1766 accepted as Myriopathes myriophylla (Pallas, 1766) (type by original designation)

Type taxon of

Myriopathidae Opresko, 2001

Parent

Myriopathidae Opresko, 2001

Synonymised names

Hydradendrium Carter, 1880 · unaccepted (overlooked senior synonym)

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Species Myriopathes antrocrada (Opresko, 1999)
Species Myriopathes bifaria (Brook, 1889)
Species Myriopathes catharinae (Pax, 1932)
Species Myriopathes japonica (Brook, 1889)
Species Myriopathes lata (Silberfeld, 1909)
Species Myriopathes myriophylla (Pallas, 1766)
Species Myriopathes panamensis (Verrill, 1869)
Species Myriopathes rugosa (Thomson & Simpson, 1905)
Species Myriopathes spinosa (Carter, 1880)
Species Myriopathes stechowi (Pax, 1932)
Species Myriopathes ulex (Ellis & Solander, 1786)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Opresko, D.M. 2001. Revision of the Antipatharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Part I. Establishment of a new family, Myriopathidae. Zool. Med. Leiden 75 (17): 343-370, available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/45071
page(s): 346 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Molodtsova, T.; Opresko, D. (2025). World List of Antipatharia. Myriopathes Opresko, 2001. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267609 on 2025-06-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-14 11:18:07Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2018-07-30 16:55:50Z

changed

Molodtsova, Tina

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description Opresko, D.M. 2001. Revision of the Antipatharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Part I. Establishment of a new family, Myriopathidae. Zool. Med. Leiden 75 (17): 343-370, available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/45071
page(s): 346 [details]

original description (of Hydradendrium Carter, 1880) Carter, H.J. (1880). Report on Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar and presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt.W.H. Cawne Warren. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (5) 6(31):35-61, pls IV-VI; 129-156, pls VII, VIII.
page(s): 454-455, 457, Pl. XIX 8(a-g) [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 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

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Myriopathes cf. japonica