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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