WoRMS name details
Paramuriceidae Bayer, 1956
151540 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151540)
unaccepted
Family
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Status McFadden et al. 2022 reinstated family Paramuriceidae for genera formally belonging to Plexauridae and Acanthogorgiidae. ...
Status McFadden et al. 2022 reinstated family Paramuriceidae for genera formally belonging to Plexauridae and Acanthogorgiidae. Family Acanthogorgiidae has precedence over Paramuriceidae, however, and should therefore be the correct name of this family. [details]
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Paramuriceidae Bayer, 1956. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151540 on 2025-04-11
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Nomenclature
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Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors 
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McFadden, C.S.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Quattrini, A.M. (2022). Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics. <em>Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists.</em> 1(3), 8735, pp. 1-79., available online at https://ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb/article/view/8735
page(s): 60-62 [details]
page(s): 60-62 [details]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Status McFadden et al. 2022 reinstated family Paramuriceidae for genera formally belonging to Plexauridae and Acanthogorgiidae. Family Acanthogorgiidae has precedence over Paramuriceidae, however, and should therefore be the correct name of this family. [details]
