Ceriantipatharia
Sign in to saveCeriantipatharia (rare synonym: Hexacorallia Goette, 1902 [non Haeckel, 1866]) is a taxon (usually a subclass) of Anthozoans used in some systems. It consists of the two taxa (usually orders) Ceriantharia (tube anemones) and Antipatharia (black corals).
Species
Order
- PhylumCnidaria
- ClassHexacorallia
- OrderCeriantipatharia
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 58
- Collections
- UM-RSMAS
- Recorded in
- Bahamas, CuraçAo, Curacao, United States, Jamaica, Turks And Caicos Islands, Marshall Islands
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Classification history
- Rank
- Texts accepting Ceriantipatharia
- Texts not accepting Ceriantipatharia (since 1898)
- References
Ceriantipatharia (rare synonym: Hexacorallia Goette, 1902 [non Haeckel, 1866]) is a taxon (usually a subclass) of Anthozoans used in some systems. It consists of the two taxa (usually orders) Ceriantharia (tube anemones) and Antipatharia (black corals).
The taxon Ceriantipatharia, comprising Ceriantharia and Antipatharia, has been used in many systems of cnidarianns from 1898 onwards. Rejected by some authors from the very beginning (i. e. since around 1900), it is only since around the year 2000 that the taxon Ceriantipatharia has been deprecated by most texts and the orders Ceriantharia and Antipatharia have been classified as mutually unrelated orders of Hexacorallia, rather than as orders of Ceriantipatharia (see the chapter Classification history for details). Some texts, however, still use Ceriantipatharia even today.
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