WoRMS taxon details
Plexauridae Gray, 1859
125277 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125277)
accepted
Family
Allogorgiidae Verrill, 1928 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Euniceidae Kölliker, 1865 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Hypnogorgiadae Gray, 1870 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Genus Eunicea Lamouroux, 1816
- Genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821
- Genus Plexaura Lamouroux, 1812
- Genus Pseudoplexaura Wright & Studer, 1889
- Genus Swiftia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
- Genus Allogorgia Verrill, 1928 accepted as Swiftia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 accepted as Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Eunicensis Dubrowsky, 1934 accepted as Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Euniceopsis Verrill, 1907 accepted as Eunicea Lamouroux, 1816 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Evacis Verrill, 1912 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
- Genus Plexauropsis Verrill, 1907 accepted as Plexaura Lamouroux, 1812 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Cyclogorgia Gordon, 1926 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Genus Discomuricea Gordon, 1926 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Genus Gonigoria Gray, 1851 (uncertain, possibly Muricea)
- Genus Pseudechinogorgia Gordon, 1926 (uncertain > unassessed)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Gray, J.E. (1859). On the arrangement of zoophytes with pinnated tentacles. <em>Annals and Magazine of natural History.</em> (3) 4: 439-444., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18638354
page(s): 442 [details]
page(s): 442 [details]
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Plexauridae Gray, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125277 on 2025-07-11
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Nomenclature
original description
Gray, J.E. (1859). On the arrangement of zoophytes with pinnated tentacles. <em>Annals and Magazine of natural History.</em> (3) 4: 439-444., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18638354
page(s): 442 [details]
original description (of Allogorgiidae Verrill, 1928) Verrill, A.E. (1928). Hawaiian shallow water Anthozoa. <em>Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum.</em> 49: 1-30, pls. 1-5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38875672 [details]
original description (of Hypnogorgiadae Gray, 1870) Gray, J. E. (1870). Catalogue of Lithophytes or stony corals in the collection of the British Museum. pp. 1-51., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23832271
page(s): 33 [details]
basis of record van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 104-105 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 442 [details]
original description (of Allogorgiidae Verrill, 1928) Verrill, A.E. (1928). Hawaiian shallow water Anthozoa. <em>Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum.</em> 49: 1-30, pls. 1-5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38875672 [details]
original description (of Hypnogorgiadae Gray, 1870) Gray, J. E. (1870). Catalogue of Lithophytes or stony corals in the collection of the British Museum. pp. 1-51., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23832271
page(s): 33 [details]
basis of record van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 104-105 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
McFadden, C.S.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Quattrini, A.M. (2022). Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics. <em>Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists.</em> 1(3), 8735, pp. 1-79., available online at https://ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb/article/view/8735
page(s): 63-64 [details]
page(s): 63-64 [details]
Other
context source (PeRMS)
Cortés, J.; Enochs, I.C.; Sibaja-Cordero, J.; Hernández, L.; Alvarado, J.J.; Breedy, O.; Cruz-Barraza, J.A.; Esquivel-Garrote, O.; Fernández-García, C.; Hermosillo, A.; Kaiser, K.L.; Medina-Rosas, P.; Morales-Ramírez, Á.; Pacheco, C.; Pérez-Matus, A.; Reyes-Bonilla, H.; Riosmena-Rodríguez, R.; Sánchez-Noguera, C.; Wieters, E.A.; Zapata, F.A. (2016). Marine Biodiversity of Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Reefs. Chap. 7, pp. 203-250 <i>in:</i> Coral Reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7499-4_7 [details] Available for editors 
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additional source Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 89 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 89 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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| Japanese | ホソヤギ科 | [details] |
