UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Pseudopterogorgia K�kenthal, 1919

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Pseudopterogorgia Kükenthal, 1919

AphiaID

267781 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267781)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Gorgoniidae Lamouroux, 1812

Direct children (9)

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Species Pseudopterogorgia australiensis (Ridley, 1884)
Species Pseudopterogorgia formosa (Nutting, 1910)
Species Pseudopterogorgia fredericki Williams & Vennam, 2001
Species Pseudopterogorgia luzonica Kükenthal, 1919
Species Pseudopterogorgia nanjiensis Sun, Xu & Zhan, 2024
Species Pseudopterogorgia oppositipinna (Ridley, 1888)
Species Pseudopterogorgia rubrotincta (Thomson & Henderson, 1905)
Species Pseudopterogorgia torresia (Wright & Studer, 1889)
Species Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae Bayer, 1961 accepted as Antillogorgia elisabethae (Bayer, 1961) (original combination)

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Kükenthal, W. (1919). Gorgonaria. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer “Valdivia”, 1898–1899. 13, 1–946., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6222923
page(s): 854 [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Pseudopterogorgia Kükenthal, 1919. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267781 on 2025-05-05

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Pseudopterogorgia Kükenthal, 1919. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267781 on 2025-05-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-14 11:18:07Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2010-09-16 09:11:12Z

changed

van Ofwegen, Leen

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original description Kükenthal, W. (1919). Gorgonaria. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer “Valdivia”, 1898–1899. 13, 1–946., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6222923
page(s): 854 [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]

additional source Breedy, O.; Guzman, H. M. (2007). A revision of the genus Leptogorgia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae) in the eastern Pacific. Zootaxa. 1419(1): 1-90., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1419.1.1
page(s): 4, 87 [details] Available for editors

additional source Grasshoff, M. (1988). The Genus Leptogorgia (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae) in West Africa. Atlantide Report. 14, 91-147.
page(s): 94 [details] Available for editors

additional source Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 355 [details] Available for editors

additional source Sánchez, J. A. (2007). A new genus of Atlantic octocorals (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae): systematics of gorgoniids with asymmetric sclerites. Journal of Natural History. 41(9-12): 493-509., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930701237315
page(s): 496, 497, 505, 506 [details] Available for editors

additional source Williams, G. C.; Lindo, K. G. (1997). A review of the octocorallian genus Leptogorgia (Anthozoa: Gorgoniidae) in the Indian Ocean and Subantarctic, with description of a new species and comparisons with related taxa. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 49, 499–521.
page(s): 518 [details]

additional source Alderslade, P. (1986). An unusual leaf-like gorgonian (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory. 3, 81-93.
page(s): 81 [details]

additional source Deichmann, E. (1936). The Alcyonaria of the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College. 53: 1-317, plates 1-37., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4363633
page(s): 174 [details]

additional source Lasker, H. R. (1983). Vegetative reproduction in the octocoral Briareum asbestinum (Pallas). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 72, 157-169
page(s): 161 [details]

additional source Lasker, H. R.; Coffroth, M. (1983). Octocoral distributions at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 13, 21-28
page(s): 27 [details]

additional source Sánchez, J. A. (2001). Systematics of the southwestern Caribbean Muriceopsis Aurivillius (Cnidaria: Octocorallia), with the description of a new species. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, 10, 160-180
page(s): 167 [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
page(s): 504 [details]

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