Species Myriopathes ulex (Ellis & Solander, 1786)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anthipathes ulex Ellis, J. & Solander, D. 1786. The natural history of many curious and uncommen zoophytes, collected from various parts of the globe by the late John Ellis....Systematically arranged and described by the late Daniel Solander. London : printed for Benjamine White and Son; at Horace's Head, Fleet Street; and Peter Elmsly, in the Strand. i-xii, 208 pp., 63 pls.

  Type data:

   Holotype No details provided, off Jakarta, Indonesia (reported as Batavia, Dutch East Indies).

Generic Combinations

• Myriopathes ulex (Ellis & Solander, 1786). —
  Opresko, D.M. 2001. Revision of the Antipatharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Part I. Establishment of a new family, Myriopathidae. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 75(17): 343–370

Introduction

Identification of Australian specimens by Horowitz et al. (2022) - See supplementary Table 1.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Queensland: off Circular Quay Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia

General References

Horowitz, J., Opresko, D., Molodtsova, T.N., Beaman, R.J., Cowman, P.F. & Bridge, T.C.L. 2022. Five new species of black coral (Anthozoa; Antipatharia) from the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, Australia. Zootaxa 5213(1): 001–035

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