UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Pseudoplexaura tenuis (Kunze, 1916)

WoRMS taxon details

Pseudoplexaura tenuis (Kunze, 1916)

AphiaID

1548316 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1548316)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pseudoplexaura Wright & Studer, 1889

Original name

Plexaurella tenuis Kunze, 1916

Synonymised names

Plexaurella tenuis Kunze, 1916 · unaccepted > superseded combination (original combination)

Pseudoplexaura crucis Bayer, 1961 · unaccepted (synonym)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Plexaurella tenuis Kunze, 1916) Kunze, G. (1916). Die Gorgonarien Westindiens. Kap. 5. Die Gattung Plexaurella. Zoologische Jahrbücher Supplement. 11(4): 553-586, plates 27-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14178910
page(s): 579-582 [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Pseudoplexaura tenuis (Kunze, 1916). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1548316 on 2025-05-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2021-11-08 19:39:22Z

created

Cordeiro, Ralf

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Plexaurella tenuis Kunze, 1916) Kunze, G. (1916). Die Gorgonarien Westindiens. Kap. 5. Die Gattung Plexaurella. Zoologische Jahrbücher Supplement. 11(4): 553-586, plates 27-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14178910
page(s): 579-582 [details]

original description (of Pseudoplexaura crucis Bayer, 1961) 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 [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomy

source of synonymy Cordeiro, R. T. S.; McFadden, C. S.; Sánchez, J. A.; Pérez, C. D. (2021). Revision of the genus Plexaurella Kölliker, 1865 (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) and resurrection of Plexaurellidae Verrill, 1912 new rank. Invertebrate Systematics. 35(8) 892-921., available online at https://www.publish.csiro.au/IS/IS21003 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	false plexaura [from synonym]	[details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Plexaurella tenuis Kunze, 1916)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Pseudoplexaura crucis Bayer, 1961)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pseudoplexaura crucis) (from synonym Pseudoplexaura crucis Bayer, 1961)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Pseudoplexaura crucis Bayer, 1961)
To NMNH Extant Collection (366451) (from synonym Pseudoplexaura crucis Bayer, 1961)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (7 records) (from synonym Pseudoplexaura crucis Bayer, 1961)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (Holotype USNM 51718) (from synonym Pseudoplexaura crucis Bayer, 1961)

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (366451)

Hosted externally, from synonym