Calcigorgia spiculifera

Calcigorgia spiculifera

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Holaxonia
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Phylum: Cnidaria Classis: Anthozoa Subclassis: Octocorallia Ordo: Alcyonacea Subordo: Holaxonia

Familia: Acanthogorgiidae
Genus: Calcigorgia
Species: Calcigorgia spiculifera

Name

Calcigorgia spiculifera Broch, 1935

Type locality: Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Fox Islands, Umnak Island.

Neotype: USNM 1012500, NE of Islands of Four Mountains, Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea: 53°11.67'N 169°41.07'W, depth 431 m, bottom temp, 3.6°C, F/N Vesteraalen cruise 94-1, haul 44, 11 June 1994, one nearly complete colony,

References

Primary references

• Broch, H. 1935. Oktokorallen des nördlichsten Pazifischen Ozeans und ihre Beziehungen zur atlantischen Fauna. Avhandlinger utgitt av det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo. I. Matematisk-Naturvidenskapelig Klasse. 1: 1—35. Reference page.  [see page 22, original description]
• Matsumoto, A.K., van Ofwegen, L.P., Bayer, F.M. 2019. A revision of the genus Calcigorgia (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Acanthogorgiidae) with the description of three new species. Zootaxa. 4571: 1–27. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.1.1 Reference page.  [see pages 18-22, redescription, neotype designation]

Additional references

• Dautova, T.N. 2018. Two new species of deep-water Calcigorgia gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the Kurile Islands, Sea of Okhotsk, with a review of distinctive characters of the known species of the genus. European Journal of Taxonomy 408: 1-22. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.408 full article (PDF). Reference page.  [see pages 4, 10 and 11]

Links

• Cordeiro, R.; McFadden, C.; van Ofwegen, L.; Williams, G. (2020). World List of Octocorallia. Calcigorgia spiculifera Broch, 1935. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=378316 on 2020-09-21

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