Abyssoanthidae Reimer & Fujiwara, in Reimer, Sinniger, Fujiwara, Hirano & Maruyama, 2007, 2013

Low, Martyn E. Y., Sinniger, Frederic & Reimer, James Davis, 2016, The order Zoantharia Rafinesque, 1815 (Cnidaria, Anthozoa: Hexacorallia): supraspecific classification and nomenclature, ZooKeys 641, pp. 1-80 : 19

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.641.10346

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scientific name

Abyssoanthidae Reimer & Fujiwara, in Reimer, Sinniger, Fujiwara, Hirano & Maruyama, 2007
status

 

Abyssoanthidae Reimer & Fujiwara, in Reimer, Sinniger, Fujiwara, Hirano & Maruyama, 2007

Abyssoanthidae Reimer & Fujiwara, in Reimer, Sinniger, Fujiwara, Hirano & Maruyama, 2007: 258.

Type genus.

Abyssoanthus Reimer & Fujiwara, in Reimer, Sinniger, Fujiwara, Hirano & Maruyama, 2007.

Diagnosis.

"Sand/detritus/sediment-encrusted Zoantharia with unitary (noncolonial) free-living polyps, attached to hard substrates at abyssal (non-continental shelf deep-sea) depths surrounding methane cold seeps or other chemosynthetic ecosystems." Reimer and Sininger (2010: 454).

Remarks.

A monogeneric family. Molecular data places this family in an unresolved position distant from the Brachycnemina and Macrocnemina .

Kingdom

Animalia

Order

Zoantharia

Family

Abyssoanthidae

Loc

Abyssoanthidae Reimer & Fujiwara, in Reimer, Sinniger, Fujiwara, Hirano & Maruyama, 2007

Low, Martyn E. Y., Sinniger, Frederic & Reimer, James Davis 2016
2016
Loc

Abyssoanthidae

Reimer & Fujiwara 2007
2007