Plumarella aurea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Calcaxonia 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Classis: Anthozoa
Subclassis: Alcyonaria
Ordo: Alcyonacea
Subordo: Calcaxonia

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]

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