Plumarella aurea

Plumarella aurea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scleralcyonacea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Phylum: Cnidaria Classis: Anthozoa Subclassis: Octocorallia Ordo: Scleralcyonacea

Familia: Primnoidae
Genus: Plumarella
Species: Plumarella aurea

Name

Plumarella aurea (Deichmann, 1936) Bayer, 1981

Type locality: Florida Keys

Syntypes:

• YPM IZ 079129. Straits of Florida; about 30 miles S of Sombrero Key, 324-324 fms.
• MCZ CNID-4801, Off Bahia Honda, Florida

Synonymy

• Thouarella aurea Deichmann, 1936 (original combination)

References

Primary references

• Bayer, F.M. 1981. Key to the genera of Octocorallia exclusive of Pennatulacea (Coelenterata: Anthozoa), with diagnoses of new taxa. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 94(3): 902-947. BHL Reference page.  [new combination: p. 934, fig. 70]
• Deichmann, E. 1936. The Alcyonaria of the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 53: 1–308, 37 pls. BHL Reference page.  [original description of Thouarella aurea:p. 165-166, pl. 25 figs. 12-13, pl. 26 fig. 11]

Additional references

• Cairns, S.D. & Bayer, F.M. 2004: Studies On Western Atlantic Octocorallia (Coelenterata : Anthozoa). Part 5: The genera Plumarella Gray, 1870; Acanthoprimnoa, n. gen.; and Candinella Bayer, 1954. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 117(4):447-487. BHL URL Reference page.  [p. 464-466, figs. 1C, 6D-E, 7A-D]

Links

• Plumarella aurea in the World Register of Marine Species

• BHL bibliography
• Plumarella aurea – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Plumarella aurea.
• ION

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