| Full name: |
Hexacorallians (Actiniaria) of the World UPDATED!
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| Short name: |
WoRMS Hexacoral |
| Version: |
2019-03-05 |
| Release date: |
2019-03-05 |
| Authors/editors: |
Daly M. & Fautin D. |
| Taxonomic coverage: |
Animalia - Cnidaria - Anthozoa |
| English name of the group: |
Sea anemones, tube anemones, hard corals, black corals |
|
Number of living species |
1,138 |
|
Number of living infraspecific taxa |
2 |
| Number of extinct species: |
0 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: |
0 |
| Number of synonyms: |
2,241 |
| Number of common names: |
502 |
| Total number of names: |
3,883 |
| Abstract: |
A compilation of publications concerning taxonomy, nomenclature, and geographic distribution of extant hexacorallians - members of cnidarian orders Actiniaria (sea anemones in the strict sense), Antipatharia (black corals), Ceriantharia (tube anemones), Corallimorpharia (sea anemones in the loose sense), Ptychodactiaria (sea anemones in the loose sense), Scleractinia (hard or stony corals), and Zoanthidea (sea anemones in the loose sense) |
| Organization: |
Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology (EEOB), Ohio State University, Columbus OH, USA; Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, USA |
| Website: |
http://www.marinespecies.org
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| Bibliographic citation: |
Daly M. & Fautin D. (2019). WoRMS Hexacoral: Hexacorallians (Actiniaria) of the World (version 2019-03-05). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |
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