Catherine S. McFadden, Leen P. van Ofwegen, Andrea M. Quattrini,
The anthozoan sub-class Octocorallia includes over 3500 nominal species of soft corals and gorgonian sea fans, many of which serve as critical foundation species ... a revision of the families and orders of Octocorallia. We (1) elevate the anthozoan sub-classes Octocorallia and Hexacorallia to the rank of Class; (2) replace the three currently recognized orders of Octocorallia (Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, Helioporacea) with two new orders reflecting ... a new superfamily. The revised classifi-cation of Octocorallia thus comprises 79 families, including 18 that are ...
Tópico(s): Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
2022 - Ohio State University Libraries | Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists
Sergio Vargas, Odalisca Breedy, Héctor M. Guzmán,
... H. M. 2010. — The phylogeny of Pacifigorgia (Coelenterata, Octocorallia, Gorgoniidae): a case study of the use of continuous characters in the systematics of the Octocorallia. Zoosystema 32 (1): 5-18.The Octocorallia constitute a group of organisms that inhabit a ... considered a philosophical and methodological challenge; within the Octocorallia it has led researchers to rearrange genera, to ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2010 - Muséum national d'histoire naturelle | Zoosystema
Catherine S. McFadden, Juan A. Sánchez, Scott C. France,
The anthozoan sub-class Octocorallia, comprising approximately 3000 species of soft corals, gorgonians, and sea pens, remains one of the most poorly understood groups of ... necessary to propose an alternative, phylogenetic classification of Octocorallia or to elucidate patterns of morphological evolution within ... very slow rate of mitochondrial gene evolution in Octocorallia, and a consequent dearth of molecular markers with ... relationships and of evolution of morphological traits in Octocorallia. Genome and transcriptome sequencing may provide enough characters ...
Tópico(s): Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
2010 - Oxford University Press | Integrative and Comparative Biology
Kouji Uda, Yusuke Komeda, Hiwa Koyama, Koga Kumiko, Toshihiko Fujita, Nozomu Iwasaki, Tomohiko Suzuki,
... the family Coralliidae within the order Alcyonacea, subclass Octocorallia, and class Anthozoa, whose skeletal axes are used ... between Acanella eburnea and Keratoisidinae sp. belonging to Octocorallia. Surprisingly, however, their gene arrangements were not identical. ... genome sequences belonging to species in the subclass Octocorallia indicated that within the subclass, at least three ...
Tópico(s): Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
2011 - Elsevier BV | Gene
Stephanie A. Brockman, Catherine S. McFadden,
... gene arrangement now known within the cnidarian subclass Octocorallia. At 19,886 bp, the mt genome of ... gene arrangements onto a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny of Octocorallia suggests that all of the known octocoral gene ... of the four conserved gene blocks found in Octocorallia are, however, also conserved in the linear mt ...
Tópico(s): Protist diversity and phylogeny
2012 - Oxford University Press | Genome Biology and Evolution
Thomas Lund Koch, Cornelis J.P. Grimmelikhuijzen,
... these results with neuropeptides present in the subclass Octocorallia (belonging to the class Anthozoa). We found three ... having the C-terminal sequence GRFamide (pQGRFamide in Octocorallia; pQWLRGRFamide in Cubozoa and Scyphozoa; pQFLRGRFamide in Staurozoa). ... or RPRSamide preprohormones from cubozoans, scyphozoans, staurozoans, and octocorallia, we found that their phylogenetic relationships perfectly agreed ...
Tópico(s): Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
2019 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Endocrinology
Íris Sampaio, André Freiwald, Filipe M. Porteiro, Gui Menezes, Marina Carreiro‐Silva,
... a thorough revision of the taxonomic literature on Octocorallia since the beginning of deep-sea exploration in ... sub-orders within it. Ninety-eight names of Octocorallia were found to be given in the economic ... clarification. This is the highest species richness of Octocorallia found in Europe and in any Northern Atlantic ...
Tópico(s): Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
2019 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa
... relation to tube development is described in several Octocorallia species(Alcyonaria: Alcyonium digitatum, Parerythropodium coralloides, Cornularia cornucopiae, ... which have only one type nematocyst. In the Octocorallia, capsule and tube are secreted successively by the ... the differentiation of the tube in nematocysts of Octocorallia.
Tópico(s): Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
1981 - BioMed Central | Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen
Severin A. Korfhage, Sven Rossel, Saskia Brix, Catherine S. McFadden, Steinunn H. Ólafsdóttir, Pedro Martínez Arbizu,
... is morphologically and genetically challenging for Hexa- and Octocorallia. Morphological variation and slowly evolving molecular markers both ... a fast and cheap species delimitation tool for Octocorallia and Scleractinia, an order of the Hexacorallia, of ... reference library of proteome spectra for Scleractinia and Octocorallia, MALDI-TOF MS may provide a rapid and ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2022 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Marine Science
... meps08307 Character lability in deep-sea bamboo corals (Octocorallia, Isididae, Keratoisidinae) Luisa F. Dueñas, Juan A. Sánchez* ... 2009) Character lability in deep-sea bamboo corals (Octocorallia, Isididae, Keratoisidinae). Mar Ecol Prog Ser 397:11- ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2009 - Inter-Research | Marine Ecology Progress Series

DO Pires, CB Castro, J.C. Silva,
... of the deep-sea pennatulacean Anthoptilum murrayi (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) D. O. Pires*, C. B. Castro, J. C. ... of the deep-sea pennatulacean Anthoptilum murrayi (Cnidaria, Octocorallia). Mar Ecol Prog Ser 397:103-112. https:// ...
Tópico(s): Marine and fisheries research
2009 - Inter-Research | Marine Ecology Progress Series
P.M. Alino, PW Sammarco, JC Coll,
... communities.Competition for space between Clavularia inflata (Coelenterata, Octocorallia), Briareum stechei (Octocorallia), and Acropora longlcyathus (Coelenterata, Scleractinia) in all possible ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
1992 - Inter-Research | Marine Ecology Progress Series
Marta Ribes, Rafel Coma, Sergio Rossi,
... the temperate asymbiotic octocoral-gorgonian Leptogorgia sarmentosa (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) Marta Ribes1,4,*, Rafel Coma2, Sergi Rossi3 1Hawaii ... of the ubiquitous temperate species Leptogorgia sarmentosa (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) in the NW Mediterranean. We measured in situ ...
Tópico(s): Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
2003 - Inter-Research | Marine Ecology Progress Series
DM Poland, JM Mansfield, AR Hannes, CLF Lewis, T. L. Shearer, SJ Connelly, Nathan L. Kirk, MA Coffroth,
... in Symbiodinium communities in juvenile Briareum asbestinum (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) over temporal and spatial scales Daniel M. Poland1, ... in Symbiodinium communities in juvenile Briareum asbestinum (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) over temporal and spatial scales. Mar Ecol Prog ...
Tópico(s): Crustacean biology and ecology
2012 - Inter-Research | Marine Ecology Progress Series
Diego F. Figueroa, Amy R. Baco,
... test the robustness of the phylogeny of the Octocorallia, to determine the evolutionary pathway for the five ... Our phylogeny supports three major divisions within the Octocorallia and show that Paragorgiidae is paraphyletic, with Sibogagorgia ... the first study to show that in the Octocorallia, mitochondrial gene orders have evolved back to an ... can be used effectively for phylogenetic analyses within Octocorallia, their utility at higher taxonomic levels within Cnidaria ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
2014 - Oxford University Press | Genome Biology and Evolution
Ehsan Kayal, Béatrice Roure, Hervé Philippe, Allen G. Collins, Dennis V. Lavrov,
... subdivides Cnidaria into two main assemblages: Anthozoa (Hexacorallia + Octocorallia) – cnidarians with a reproductive polyp and the absence ... support many prior hypotheses, including monophyly of Hexacorallia, Octocorallia, Medusozoa, Cubozoa, Staurozoa, Hydrozoa, Carybdeida, Chirodropida, and Hydroidolina, ... reject the monophyly of Anthozoa, indicating that the Octocorallia + Medusozoa relationship is not the result of sampling ...
Tópico(s): Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
2013 - Springer Science+Business Media | BMC Evolutionary Biology
Elena Quintanilla, JM Gili, Pablo J. López‐González, Georgios Tsounis, Teresa Madurell, Ida Fiorillo, Sergio Rossi,
... cycle of the epibiotic soft coral Alcyonium coralloides (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) Elena Quintanilla1,*, Josep-Maria Gili1, Pablo J. ... cycle of the epibiotic soft coral Alcyonium coralloides (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). Aquat Biol 18:113-124. https://doi. ...
Tópico(s): Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
2013 - Inter-Research | Aquatic Biology
Marta Ribes, Rafel Coma, JM Gili,
... rate of the temperate gorgonian Paramuricea clavata (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) over a year cycle Marta Ribes*, Rafel Coma, ... csic.es ABSTRACT: Paramuricea clavata Risso, 1826 (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) is a characteristic species of Mediterranean benthic fauna. ...
Tópico(s): Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
1999 - Inter-Research | Marine Ecology Progress Series
... in deeper waters, to improve knowledge of the Octocorallia fauna in Far East seas. The distribution of Calcigorgia (Octocorallia, Acanthogorgiidae) is reviewed and presented based on field ...
Tópico(s): Marine Biology and Ecology Research
2019 - Consortium of European Natural History Museums | European Journal of Taxonomy

Catherine S. McFadden, Andrea M. Quattrini, Mercer R. Brugler, Peter F. Cowman, Luisa F. Dueñas, Marcelo Visentini Kitahara, David A. Paz‐García, James Davis Reimer, Estefanía Rodríguez,
... features. The phylogeny supports reciprocally monophyletic Hexacorallia and Octocorallia, with Ceriantharia as the earliest diverging hexacorals; two reciprocally monophyletic clades of Octocorallia; and monophyly of all hexacoral orders with the ... symmetry; coloniality; coral; early metazoans; exon capture; Hexacorallia; Octocorallia photosymbiosis; sea anemone; ultraconserved elements.]
Tópico(s): Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
2020 - Oxford University Press | Systematic Biology
Nicola Conci, Sergio Vargas, Gert Wörheide,
Octocorallia (class Anthozoa, phylum Cnidaria) is a group of calcifying corals displaying a wide diversity of mineral ... evolutionary perspective, the presence of aragonitic skeletons in Octocorallia is puzzling as it is observed in very ...
Tópico(s): Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
2021 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Yuki Hongo, Nina Yasuda, Satoshi Nagai,
... coerulea is the only species in the subclass Octocorallia that has a crystalline aragonite skeleton. The skeleton ... Corallium rubrum, a species that also belongs to Octocorallia. However, genes related to heme synthesis and HO ... in the skeleton, while red corals and other Octocorallia species cannot. Further information from molecular studies of ...
Tópico(s): Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
2017 - Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) | Biological Bulletin
Danielle M. DeLeo, Manabu Bessho‐Uehara, Steven H. D. Haddock, Catherine S. McFadden, Andrea M. Quattrini,
... the diversity and evolutionary origins of bioluminescence among Octocorallia-a major anthozoan group of marine luminous organisms. ... evidence for a single origin of bioluminescence in Octocorallia and infer the age of occurrence to around ...
Tópico(s): Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
2024 - Royal Society | Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
<strong>The Common Soft Corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) in East Biak Waters.</strong> Soft corals are tentacle-bearing invertebrates that belong to the phylum Coelenterata. The name soft corals rever to Octocorallia which have nonmassive skeleton as internal axis. Their ...
Tópico(s): Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
2016 - Indonesian Institute of Sciences | Oseanologi dan Limnologi di Indonesia/Oseanologi di Indonesia
... before 1970. This paper gives a list of Octocorallia collected from the Kuril Basin of the Sea ... seas. The diversity and distribution of deep-water Octocorallia in the temperate Northwest Pacific are discussed based ...
Tópico(s): Cephalopods and Marine Biology
2018 - Elsevier BV | Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography
Yehuda Benayahu, Ming-Shiou Jeng, Shimrit Perkol‐Finkel, Chang‐Feng Dai,
(Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from southern Taiwan. II. species diversity and distributional patterns. Zoological Studies 43(3): 548-560. ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2004 - Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica | Zoological studies
Héctor M. Guzmán, Jorge Cortés,
... disease coincides with our observations. Death of other octocorallia was not observed. This is the first time ...
Tópico(s): Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
2016 - Vicerractoría Investigación | Revista de Biología Tropical

Clovis B. Castro, Marcelo Semeraro de Medeiros, Livia L. Loiola,
... Bayer, 1961 Bayer, FM. 1961. The shallow-water Octocorallia of the West Indian region. A manual for ...
Tópico(s): Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Natural History
Qualitative sampling of Octocorallia in 226 underwater stations at 23 localities between Marseille and Sardinia yielded information about their tolerances with respect to ...
Tópico(s): Marine Biology and Ecology Research
1980 - Brill | Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde
The feeding behaviour of some 30 species of Octocorallia was examined in the laboratory and in the ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
1982 - Wiley | Journal of Zoology