Published June 30, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article Open

A new genus of Atlantic octocorals (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae): systematics of gorgoniids with asymmetric sclerites

Description

Sánchez, Juan A. (2007): A new genus of Atlantic octocorals (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae): systematics of gorgoniids with asymmetric sclerites. Journal of Natural History 41 (9-12): 493-509, DOI: 10.1080/00222930701237315, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930701237315

Files

source.pdf

Files (832.0 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:6597320c9384a3cbff2a883435b6f722
832.0 kB Preview Download

Linked records

Additional details

Identifiers

LSID
urn:lsid:plazi.org:pub:FF97320CFF84FFCBFF2A8834FFB6F722
URL
http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF97320CFF84FFCBFF2A8834FFB6F722

References

  • Aguilar C, Sanchez JA. 2007a. Phylogenetic hypotheses of gorgoniid octocorals according to ITS2 and their predicted RNA secondary structures. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution. Forthcoming.
  • Aguilar C, Sanchez JA. 2007b. Molecular morphometrics: contribution of ITS2 sequences and predicted RNA secondary structures to octocoral systematics. Bulletin of Marine Science. Forthcoming.
  • Bayer FM. 1953. Zoogeography and evolution in the octocorallian family Gorgoniidae. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean 3:100-119.
  • Bayer FM. 1956. Octocorallia. In: Moore RC, editor. Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. Part F, Coelenterata. Lawrence: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. p 163-231.
  • Bayer FM. 1961. The shallow water Octocorallia of the West Indian region. Studies of the Fauna of Curacao 12:1-373.
  • Bayer F. 1981. Key to the genera of Octocorallia exclusive of the Pennatulacea (Coelenterata: Anthozoa), with diagnoses of new taxa. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 943:902-947.
  • Bayer FM, McIntyre IG. 2001. The mineral component of the axis and holdfast of some gorgonacean octocorals (Coelenterata: Anthozoa), with special reference to the family Gorgoniidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 114:309-345.
  • Breedy O, Guzman HM. 2003. Octocorals from Costa Rica: the genus Pacifigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae). Zootaxa 281:1-60.
  • Fabricius K, Alderslade P. 2001. Soft corals and sea fans: a comprehensive guide to the tropical shallow water genera of the central-west Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Melbourne: New Litho.
  • Fukami H, Budd AF, Paulay G, Sole'-Cava A, Chen CA, Iwao K, Knowlton N. 2004. Conventional taxonomy obscures deep divergence between Pacific and Atlantic corals. Nature 427:832-835.
  • Goldberg WM. 2001. The sclerites and geographic distribution of the gorgonian Swiftia exserta (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Holaxonia). Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 10:100-109.
  • Grasshoff M. 1977. Die Gorgonarien des ostlichen Nordatlantik und des Mittelmeeres. III. Die Familie Paramuriceidae (Cnidaria, Anthozoa). ''Meteor'' Forschungs-Ergebnisse D 27:5-76.
  • Grasshoff M. 1988. The genus Leptogorgia (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae) in West Africa. Atlantide Report 14:91-147.
  • Grasshoff M. 1992. Die Flachwasser-Gorgonien von Europa and Westafrika (Cnidaria, Anthozoa). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 149:1-135.
  • Grasshoff M, Alderslade P. 1997. Gorgoniidae of Indo-Pacific reefs with descriptions of two new genera (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Senckenbergiana Biologica 77:23-25.
  • Guzman HM, Cortes J. 1985. Organismos de los arrecifes coralinos de Costa Rica. IV. Descripcion y distribucion geografica de octocoralarios (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) de la costa Caribe. Brenesia 24:125-173.
  • Kukenthal W. 1919. Gorgonaria. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer ''Valdivia'' 1898-1899 13:1-946.
  • Lewis JC, Von Wallis E. 1991. The function of surface sclerites in gorgonians (Coelenterata Octocorallia). Biological Bulletin 181:275-288.
  • Mallet J, Willmott K. 2003. Taxonomy: renaissance or Tower of Babel? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18:57-59.
  • McFadden CS, France SC, Sanchez JA, Alderslade P. 2006. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) based on mitochondrial protein-coding sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 41(3):513-527.
  • Pallas PS. 1766. Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succinctas descriptiones cum selectis auctorum synonymis. Hagae Comitum.
  • Sanchez JA. 2001. Systematics of the Southwestern Caribbean Muriceopsis Aurivillius (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) with description of a new species. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 10:160-180.
  • Sanchez JA. 2004. Evolution and dynamics of branching colonial form in marine modular Cnidarians: gorgonian octocorals. Hydrobiologia 530:283-290.
  • Sanchez JA. 2005. Systematics of the bubblegum corals (Paragorgiidae: Octocorallia: Cnidaria) with description of new species from New Zealand and the Eastern Pacific. Zootaxa 1014:1-72.
  • Sanchez JA, Lasker HR. 2003. Patterns of morphologic integration in branching colonies of marine modular organisms: supra-module organization in gorgonian corals. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 270:2039-2044.
  • Sanchez JA, Lasker HR, Taylor DJ. 2003a. Phylogenetic analyses among octocorals (Cnidaria) according to mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences (lsu-rRNA 16S, and ssu-rRNA 18S) support two convergent clades of branching gorgonians. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 29:31-42.
  • Sanchez JA, McFadden CS, France SC, Lasker HR. 2003b. Molecular phylogenetic analyses of shallow-water Caribbean octocorals. Marine Biology 142:975-987.
  • Stiasny G. 1937. Gorgonaria von Cap Blanco, gesammelt durch Dr. Theodore Monod. Temmincka 11:297-315.
  • Stiasny G. 1939. Gorgonaria von Kap Blanco, Senegal und Rio d'Ouro (Aus dem Zoologischen Museum, Amsterdam). Revue Zoologique et Botanique Africaine 32:285-322.
  • Tixier-Durivault A, d'Hondt M-J. 1974. Les Octocoralliaires de la campagne Biacores. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Zoologie 174:1361-1433.
  • Verrill AE. 1868. Notes on Radiata in the Museum of Yale College, number 6: review of the corals and polyps of the West Coast of America. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 1:377- 422.
  • Williams GC, Lindo KG. 1997. A review of the Octocorallian genus Leptogorgia (Anthozoa: Gorgonidae) in the Indian Ocean and subantarctic, with description of a new species and comparisons with related taxa. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 49:499-521.
  • Williams GC, Vennam JS. 2001. A revision of the Indo-West Pacific taxa of the gorgonian genus Pseudopterogorgia (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae), with the description of a new species from western India. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 10:71-95.
  • Wirshing HH, Messing CG, Douady CJ, Reed J, Stanhope MJ, Shivji MS. 2005. Molecular evidence for multiple lineages in the gorgonian family Plexauridae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia). Marine Biology 147:497-508.