Species Ellisella laevis (Verrill, 1865)

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• Junceella laevis Verrill, A.E. 1865. Synopsis of the polyps and corals of the North Pacific Exploring Exploring Expedition, under Commodore C Ringgold and Captain John Rodgers, U.S.N., from 1853 to 1856. Collected by Dr. Wm. Stimpson, naturalist to the Expedition. With descriptions of some additional species from the west coast of North America. Proceedings of the Essex Institute Salem 4: 181-196 [189].

  Type data:

   Holotype (location unknown).
• Ellisella calamus Studer, T. 1878. Ubersicht der Anthozoa Alcyonaria, welche wahrend der Reise S.M.S. Gazelle um die Erde gesammelt wurden. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1878: 632-688 [660].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 2029 two samples in alcohol plus one microscope slide.
• Scirpearella indica Hickson, S.J. 1905. The Alcyonaria of the Maldives. Part III. The families Muriceidae, Gorgonellidae, Melitodidae, and the genera Pennatula, Eunephthya. (pp. 807-826, pl. LXVII) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Vol. II(Part IV) pp. 807–921, pls. LXVII-LXXXVII. [821-822] [part].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1962.7.20.122 six fragments in alcohol.
• Scirpearella hemisphaerica Nutting, C.C. 1910. The Gorgonacea of the Siboga Expedition VI The Gorgonellidae. Siboga Expéditie Monographie 13b3: 1-39 [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA COEL 3231 specimen in alcohol.

Generic Combinations

• Ellisella laevis (Verrill, 1865). —
  Kükenthal, W. 1924. Gorgonaria. Das Tierreich 47: 1-478 [366]

Introduction

Recorded from Australia by Ridley as the synonym Ellisella calamus Studer, 1878

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

General References

Ridley, S.O. 1884. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. Alert, 1881–2. Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. Spongiida. London : British Museum (Natural History) 582-630 pls 53-54. [348]

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