WoRMS taxon details

Nicella gracilis Cairns, 2007

286170  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:286170)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Octocorallia (Class)
  6. Scleralcyonacea (Order)
  7. Ellisellidae (Family)
  8. Nicella (Genus)
  9. Nicella gracilis (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Cairns, S.D. (2007). Studies on western Atlantic Octocorallia (Gorgonacea: Ellisellidae). Part 7: The genera Riisea Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 and Nicella Gray, 1870. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 120(1): 1-38., available online at https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324x(2007)120[1:sowaog]2.0.co;2
page(s): 32-34 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Nicella gracilis Cairns, 2007. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=286170 on 2025-04-16
Date
action
by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z
created
van der Land, Jacob
2010-09-17 06:17:46Z
checked
van Ofwegen, Leen

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Nomenclature

original description Cairns, S.D. (2007). Studies on western Atlantic Octocorallia (Gorgonacea: Ellisellidae). Part 7: The genera Riisea Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 and Nicella Gray, 1870. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 120(1): 1-38., available online at https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324x(2007)120[1:sowaog]2.0.co;2
page(s): 32-34 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record van Ofwegen, L.P., S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds). (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Other

context source (Bermuda) Bilewitch, J. P. (2008). Octocoral biodiversity in Bermuda. Unpub. Report, Bermuda Zoological Society, Bermuda, 9 pp. [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Habitat shelf to slope [details]
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LanguageName 
English sea whip  [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nicella gracilis) 
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 

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