Species Paralemnalia thyrsoides (Ehrenberg, 1828)

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• Ammothea thyrsoides Ehrenberg, C.G. 1828. Phytozoa Polypi. In, Hemprich, F.G. & Ehrenberg, C.G. (eds). Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones animalium evertebratorum: sepositis insectis qua ex itinere perafricam borealem et asiam occidentalem. Berolini: ex Officina Academia Venditur a Mittlero.

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMB 261 one colony in a glass display, three colonies in alcohol in storage; ZMB 262 one colony in a glass display.

Generic Combinations

• Lithophytum thrysoides (Kukenthal, 1903). —
  Kükenthal, W. 1903. Versuch einer Revision der Alcyonarien 2. Die Familie der Nephthyiden. Zoologische Jahrbücher (Systematik) 19(1): 99-178 [109]
• Lemnalia thrysoides (Ehrenberg, 1828). —
  Thomson, J.A. & Dean, L.M.I. 1931. The Alcyonacea of the Siboga Expedition with an addendum to the Gorgonacea. Siboga Expéditie Monographie 13(d): 1-227 [76-77]
• Paralemnalia thyrsoides (Ehrenberg, 1828). —
  Kükenthal, W. 1913. Alcyonaria des Roten Meeres. In: Expeditionen S.M. Schiff "Pola" in das Rote Meer. Zoologische Ergebnisse 29. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 89. pp. 1-31 [16-17]
• Verrilliana thyrsoides (Ehrenberg, 1828). —
  Gray, J.E. 1869. Notes on the fleshy alcyonoid corals (Alcyonium, Linn., or Zoophytaria carnosa). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 3: 117-131 [131]

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

Taxonomic note

+ NTM GBR

General References

Verseveldt, J. 1977. Australian Octocorallia (Coelenterata). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 28: 171-240

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