Synonymy

• Pennatula bayeri Barreira e Castro & Semaro de Medeiros, 2001

Etymology: named after Frederick M. Bayer

• Pennatula bellissima Fowler, 1888

Primary references

• Barreira e Castro, C., Semeraro de Medeiros, M. 2001. Brazilian Pennatulacea (Cnidaria: Octocorallia). Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington. 10: 140-159 Reference page.  [original description of Pennatula bayeri]
• Fowler, G.H. 1888. On a new Pennatula from the Bahamas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1888: 135-140. BHL Reference page.  [original description of Pennatula bellissima: p. 135-140; pl. VI; figs. 1-3]
• García-Cárdenas, F.J., Drewery, J., López-González, P.J. 2019. Resurrection of the sea pen genus Ptilella Gray, 1870 and description of Ptilella grayi n. sp. from the NE Atlantic (Octocorallia: Pennatulacea). Scientia Marina. 83(3): 261-276. DOI: 10.3989/scimar.04845.26A Reference page.  [recombination reference for Ptilella bellissima: p. 266]

Links

• Ptilella bellissima in the World Register of Marine Species
• BHL bibliography
• Ptilella bellissima – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Ptilella bellissima.
• ION

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