Antipathes lacerata Lamarck 1816
Authors/Creators
- 1. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
- 2. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands & Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX 1 3 SZ, UK & Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK
Description
Antipathes lacerata Lamarck, 1816
Antipathes lacerata Lamarck, 1816: 306.
Possible syntypes.
Indian Ocean • colony (dry preserved); no further locality; label “ Mus. de Paris ”; RMNH.COEL.4921 • colony (dry preserved); no further locality; RMNH.COEL.4922.
Remarks.
The original type material of Antipathes lacerata has not been located and the name remains unassessed. The two specimens listed here may represent original material, as both bear historical labels “ Mus. de Paris ” and the locality “ l’Océan Indien ” cited by Lamarck (1816). Their presence in the RMNH collection may be related to exchanges with the Paris collections in the early nineteenth century, although this cannot be confirmed due to the absence of inventories documenting material returned to Leiden in 1823. One specimen (RMNH.COEL.4921) was observed by Silvia Vicario during a visit in August 2025 and identified as an octocoral species. All specimens were observed by the second author (May 2026) and identified as gorgonian species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lamarck
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Antipatharia
- Family
- Antipathidae
- Genus
- Antipathes
- Species
- lacerata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Antipathes lacerata Lamarck, 1816 sec. Bakker & Samimi-Namin, 2026
References
- Lamarck JBM de (1816) Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome second. Verdière, Paris, 566 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.6484