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Nephthyigorgia Pinnata
Nephthyigorgia is a genus of soft corals of the family Nidaliidae . Species The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species as accepted.van Ofwegen, L. (2014). Nephthyigorgia Kükenthal, 1910. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=517564 on 2015-02-08 * ''Nephthyigorgia annectans''. (Thomson & Simpson, 1909) * ''Nephthyigorgia aurantiaca''. Kükenthal, 1910 * ''Nephthyigorgia crassa''. Kükenthal, 1910 * ''Nephthyigorgia kükenthali Nephthyigorgia is a genus of soft corals of the family Nidaliidae . Species The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species as accepted.van Ofwegen, L. (2014). Nephthyigorgia Kükenthal, 1910. Accessed through: World Register of ...''. Broch, 1916 * '' Nephthyigorgia pinnata''. Kükenthal, 1910 References Nidaliidae {{Octocorallia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Kükenthal
Willy Georg Kükenthal (August 4, 1861, Weißenfels – August 20, 1922, Berlin) was a German zoologist. He was the older brother of botanist and theologian Georg Kükenthal (1864–1955). Kükenthal specialized in the Octocorallia and on marine mammals. He edited, along with Thilo Krumbach, a landmark series of eight volumes in the ''Handbuch der Zoologie'' series which extensively reviewed and compiled the state of zoological knowledge of the time. Life Kükenthal was born to August Kükenthal (1826-1910) and Minna Wimmer (died 1917) and went to school at Weißenfels and Halle before joining the University of Munich where he studied mineralogy and later zoology at Jena, earning his doctorate at the latter institution in 1884 for studying lymphoid cells in annelids. He travelled around the North Sea with B. Weißenborn and joined the zoology department Jena under Ernst Haeckel in 1885. In 1886, with support from the Senckenberg Natural History Society, he participated in an ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. '' Panthera leo'' (lion) and '' Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. phylogenetic analysis should c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft Coral
Alcyonacea, or soft corals, are an order of corals. In addition to the fleshy soft corals, the order Alcyonacea now contains all species previously known as "gorgonian corals", that produce a more or less hard skeleton, though quite different from "true" corals (Scleractinia). These can be found in suborders Holaxonia, Scleraxonia, and Stolonifera. They are sessile colonial cnidarians that are found throughout the oceans of the world, especially in the deep sea, polar waters, tropics and subtropics. Common names for subsets of this order are sea fans and sea whips; others are similar to the sea pens of related order Pennatulacea. Individual tiny polyps form colonies that are normally erect, flattened, branching, and reminiscent of a fan. Others may be whiplike, bushy, or even encrusting. A colony can be several feet high and across, but only a few inches thick. They may be brightly coloured, often purple, red, or yellow. Photosynthetic gorgonians can be successfully kept in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nidaliidae
Nidaliidae is a family of soft corals in the phylum Cnidaria. Some members of this family are similar in appearance to gorgonians (sea fans). They are difficult to keep in the reef aquarium because they do not contain symbiotic zooxanthellae and therefore need to be fed on zooplankton. Others, in the genera ''Agaricoidea'', ''Nidalla'' and ''Pieterfaurea'', more resemble members of the family Nephtheidae and these are somewhat easier to keep in the aquarium. Wet Web Media. Retrieved 2014-02-11. Genera The World Register of Marine Species includes the followinggenera
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic ...
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World Register Of Marine Species
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms. Content The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scientific specialists on each group of organism. These taxonomists control the quality of the information, which is gathered from the primary scientific literature as well as from some external regional and taxon-specific databases. WoRMS maintains valid names of all marine organisms, but also provides information on synonyms and invalid names. It is an ongoing task to maintain the registry, since new species are constantly being discovered and described by scientists; in addition, the nomenclature and taxonomy of existing species is often corrected or changed as new research is constantly being published. Subsets of WoRMS content are made available, and can have separate badging and their own home/launch pages, as "subregisters", such as the ''World List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nephthyigorgia Annectans
Nephthyigorgia is a genus of soft corals of the family Nidaliidae . Species The World Register of Marine Species The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms. Content The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scientific speciali ... lists the following species as accepted.van Ofwegen, L. (2014). Nephthyigorgia Kükenthal, 1910. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=517564 on 2015-02-08 * '' Nephthyigorgia annectans''. (Thomson & Simpson, 1909) * '' Nephthyigorgia aurantiaca''. Kükenthal, 1910 * '' Nephthyigorgia crassa''. Kükenthal, 1910 * '' Nephthyigorgia kükenthali''. Broch, 1916 * '' Nephthyigorgia pinnata''. Kükenthal, 1910 References Nidaliidae {{Octocorallia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nephthyigorgia Aurantiaca
Nephthyigorgia is a genus of soft corals of the family Nidaliidae . Species The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species as accepted.van Ofwegen, L. (2014). Nephthyigorgia Kükenthal, 1910. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=517564 on 2015-02-08 * ''Nephthyigorgia annectans Nephthyigorgia is a genus of soft corals of the family Nidaliidae . Species The World Register of Marine Species The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive lis ...''. (Thomson & Simpson, 1909) * '' Nephthyigorgia aurantiaca''. Kükenthal, 1910 * '' Nephthyigorgia crassa''. Kükenthal, 1910 * '' Nephthyigorgia kükenthali''. Broch, 1916 * '' Nephthyigorgia pinnata''. Kükenthal, 1910 References Nidaliidae {{Octocorallia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
