Genus Pennatula Linnaeus, 1758

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pennatula Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [818].

  Type species:

   Pennatula phosphorea Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Leioptilus Gray, J.E. 1860. Revision of the family Pennatulidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 5: 20-25 [22].

  Type species:

   Leioptilus fimbriatus Gray, 1860 by monotypy.
• Phosphorella Gray, J.E. 1870. Catalogue of the sea-pens or Pennatulariidae in the collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum 40 pp. [20].

  Type species:

   Pennatula phosphorea Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Ptilella Gray, J.E. 1870. Catalogue of the sea-pens or Pennatulariidae in the collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum 40 pp. [21].

  Type species:

   Pitella borealis Gray, 1870 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Williams, G.C. 1995. Living genera of sea pens (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Pennatulacea): illustrated key and synopses. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 113: 93-140 [125-126]

General References

Alderslade, P., Althaus, F., McEnnulty, F., Gowlett-Holmes, K. & Williams, A. 2014. Australia's deep-water octocoral fauna: historical account and checklist, distributions and regional affinities of recent collections. Zootaxa 3796(3): 435–452

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