Chunellidae

Chunella gracillima and Amphiacme abyssorum.

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Cnidaria
Classis: Anthozoa
Subclassis: Octocorallia
Ordo: Pennatulacea
Subordo: Sessiliflorae
Familia: Chunellidae
Genera: Amphiacme – Calibelemnon (sometimes placed in Scleroptilidae) – Chunella – Porcupinella

Name

Chunellidae Kükenthal, 1902

References

• Kükenthal, W.G. 1902. Versuch einer Revision der Alcyonarien: I. Die Familie der Xeniiden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere. 15: 635–662. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.19040 Reference page. 
• Lopez-Gonzalez, P. J., Williams, G. C. (2011). A new deep-sea pennatulacean (Anthozoa:Octocorallia: Chunellidae) from the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (NE Atlantic). Helgoland Marine Research 65: 309–318. DOI: 10.1007/s10152-010-0224-1
• Williams, G.C. 2021. The deep-sea pennatulacean genus Porcupinella – with the description of a new species from Tasmania (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Chunellidae). Zookeys 1019: 1–14. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1019.61789 Reference page. 

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