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Eunicea Lamouroux, 1816

291322  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:291322)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Octocorallia (Class)
  6. Malacalcyonacea (Order)
  7. Plexauridae (Family)
  8. Eunicea (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Eunicea (Eunicea) Bayer, 1961 · alternative representation
Eunicea (Euniceopsis) Verrill, 1907 · alternative representation

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  1. Species Eunicea aspera Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
  2. Species Eunicea asperula Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857
  3. Species Eunicea calyculata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
  4. Species Eunicea castelnaudi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857
  5. Species Eunicea clavigera Bayer, 1961
  6. Species Eunicea colombiensis Sarmiento, Calixto-Botía, Julio-Rodríguez, Quattrini & Sánchez, 2025
  7. Species Eunicea criptica Sarmiento, Calixto-Botía, Julio-Rodríguez, Quattrini & Sánchez, 2025
  8. Species Eunicea distans Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
  9. Species Eunicea flexuosa (Lamouroux, 1821)
  10. Species Eunicea fusca Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
  11. Species Eunicea hirta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
  12. Species Eunicea knighti Bayer, 1961
  13. Species Eunicea laciniata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
  14. Species Eunicea laxispica (Lamarck, 1815)
  15. Species Eunicea mammosa Lamouroux, 1816
  16. Species Eunicea pallida Garcia Parrado & Alcolado, 1996
  17. Species Eunicea palmeri Bayer, 1961
  18. Species Eunicea pinta Bayer & Deichmann, 1958
  19. Species Eunicea stromyeri Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
  20. Species Eunicea succinea (Pallas, 1766)
  21. Species Eunicea tayrona Sánchez, 2009
  22. Species Eunicea tourneforti Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857
  23. Species Eunicea hicksoni Stiasny, 1935 accepted as Eunicea flexuosa (Lamouroux, 1821) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  24. Subgenus Eunicea (Eunicea) Bayer, 1961 represented as Eunicea Lamouroux, 1816
    1. Species Eunicea (Eunicea) flexuosa (Lamouroux, 1821) represented as Eunicea flexuosa (Lamouroux, 1821) (subgenus assignment)
    2. Species Eunicea (Eunicea) laxispica (Lamarck, 1815) represented as Eunicea laxispica (Lamarck, 1815) (subgenus assignment)
    3. Species Eunicea (Eunicea) mammosa Lamouroux, 1816 represented as Eunicea mammosa Lamouroux, 1816 (subgenus assignment)
    4. Species Eunicea (Eunicea) pallida Garcia Parrado & Alcolado, 1996 represented as Eunicea pallida Garcia Parrado & Alcolado, 1996 (subgenus assignment)
    5. Species Eunicea (Eunicea) palmeri Bayer, 1961 represented as Eunicea palmeri Bayer, 1961 (original combination)
    6. Species Eunicea (Eunicea) pinta Bayer & Deichmann, 1958 represented as Eunicea pinta Bayer & Deichmann, 1958 (subgenus assignment)
    7. Species Eunicea (Eunicea) succinea (Pallas, 1766) represented as Eunicea succinea (Pallas, 1766) (subgenus assignment)
  25. Subgenus Eunicea (Euniceopsis) Verrill, 1907 represented as Eunicea Lamouroux, 1816
    1. Species Eunicea (Euniceopsis) asperula Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 represented as Eunicea asperula Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 (subgenus assignment)
    2. Species Eunicea (Euniceopsis) calyculata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) represented as Eunicea calyculata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (subgenus assignment)
    3. Species Eunicea (Euniceopsis) clavigera Bayer, 1961 represented as Eunicea clavigera Bayer, 1961 (subgenus assignment)
    4. Species Eunicea (Euniceopsis) fusca Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 represented as Eunicea fusca Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 (subgenus assignment)
    5. Species Eunicea (Euniceopsis) knighti Bayer, 1961 represented as Eunicea knighti Bayer, 1961 (subgenus assignment)
    6. Species Eunicea (Euniceopsis) laciniata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 represented as Eunicea laciniata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 (subgenus assignment)
    7. Species Eunicea (Euniceopsis) tourneforti Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 represented as Eunicea tourneforti Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 (subgenus assignment)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Lamouroux, J. V. F. (1816). Histoire des polypiers coralligènes flexibles, vulgairement nommés zoophytes. <em>F. Poisson, Caen.</em> i-lxxxiv, 1-558, pls. I-XIX., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11606092 [details] OpenAccess publication
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Eunicea Lamouroux, 1816. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=291322 on 2026-04-04
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Eunicea Lamouroux, 1816. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=291322 on 2026-04-04
Date
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2008-01-16 11:50:05Z
created
Vanhoorne, Bart
2010-09-17 06:17:46Z
checked
van Ofwegen, Leen
2021-04-28 17:53:56Z
changed
McFadden, Cathy

original description Lamouroux, J. V. F. (1816). Histoire des polypiers coralligènes flexibles, vulgairement nommés zoophytes. <em>F. Poisson, Caen.</em> i-lxxxiv, 1-558, pls. I-XIX., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11606092 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Eunicea (Eunicea) Bayer, 1961) 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): 125 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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] 

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. <em>BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 90.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-90
page(s): 3, 4, 5, 8 [details] 

additional source Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 118-119 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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): 5, 124, 160-161, 325 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Bayer, F. M. (1991). Thelogorgia, a new genus of gorgonacean octocorals, with descriptions of four new species from the western Atlantic. <em>Bulletin of marine science.</em> 49(1-2), 506-537.
page(s): 507 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Bayer, F.M. (1955). Contributions to the nomenclature, systematics, and morphology of the Octocorallia. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 105: 207-220, plates 1-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15705299
page(s): 212; note: designation of Eunicea mammosa Lamouroux, 1816 as genolectotype of the genus [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Hickson, S. J. (1930). On the classification of the Alcyonaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, XIV, 229-252
page(s): 248 [details] 

additional source Lasker, H. R.; Coffroth, M. (1983). Octocoral distributions at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 13, 21-28, available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps013021
page(s): 23-25 [details] 

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, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-005-1592-y
page(s): 499, 500, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507 [details] 

additional source Sánchez, J. A.; Wirshing, H. H. (2005). A field key to the identification of tropical western Atlantic zooxanthellate octocorals (Octocorallia: Cnidaria). Caribbean Journal of Science, 41(3): 508-522
page(s): 515-519 [details] 

additional source Sarmiento, A.; Calixto-Botía, I.; Julio-Rodríguez, T.; Quattrini, A. M.; Sánchez, J. A. (2025). Uncovering the Evolutionary History in Lineage of Caribbean Octocorals: Phylogenomics Reveals Unrecognized Diversity in Eunicea. <em>Diversity.</em> 17(3): 173., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/3/173 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
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