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Desmophyllum pertusum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Living coral thickets on Galway Mound, Porcupine Seabight
Living coral thickets on Galway Mound, Porcupine Seabight

1245747  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1245747)

accepted
Species
Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Desmophyllum pertusum (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://marbef.org//marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1245747 on 2025-12-31
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Desmophyllum pertusum (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php/js/10.1017/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1245747 on 2025-12-31
Date
action
by
2018-04-10 12:47:39Z
created
Hoeksema, Bert
2018-08-17 16:44:54Z
changed
Hoeksema, Bert
2022-06-20 08:45:58Z
changed
Hoeksema, Bert

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original description (of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Addamo AM, Reimer JD, Taviani M, Freiwald A, Machordom A. (2012). Desmophyllum dianthus (Esper, 1794) in the scleractinian phylogeny and Its intraspecific diversity. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 7(11): e50215., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050215 [details] 

additional source Kitahara MV, Cordeiro RTS, Barbosa RV, Pires D Sumida PYG. (2020). Brazilian Deep-Sea Corals. In: Sumida PYG, Bernardino AF, De Léo FC (eds) Brazilian Deep-Sea Biodiversity. <em>Brazilian Marine Biodiversity. Volume 3. Springer, Cham.</em> pp. 73-107., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53222-2_4 [details] 

additional source Seiblitz, I.G.L., C.F. Vaga, K.C.C. Capel, S.D. Cairns, J. Stolarski, A.M. Quattrini & M.V. Kitahara. (2022). Caryophylliids (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) and mitochondrial gene order: Insights from mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenomics. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 175: 107565., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107565 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Wilborn, R.E., Goddard, P., Wilborn, M.M. II , Best, M., Rooper, C.N. (2021). Field Guide to Corals of British Columbia, Canada, Alaska, USA, and the eastern North Pacific Ocean (Anthozoa: Octocorallia and Hexacorallia) (Hydrozoa: Anthoathecata). A complete compilation of coral identifications for the eastern North Pacific Ocean. <em>Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 3433: xi + 123 p., available online at https://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.900778/publication.html [details] 

additional source Gil, M.; Ramos, A.; Ramil, F. (2025). Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from Mauritania. <em>Marine Biology Research.</em> 21 (6-7): 328-348., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2025.2559835 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

new combination reference Addamo AM, Vertino A, Stolarski J, García-Jiménez R, Taviani M, Machordom A. (2016). Merging scleractinian genera: the overwhelming genetic similarity between solitary Desmophyllum and colonial Lophelia. <em>BMC Evolutionary Biology.</em> 16: 108., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0654-8 [details] 
 
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Marine Life Information Network - UK (from synonym Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) (from synonym Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) (from synonym Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Dyntaxa (from synonym Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Desmophyllum pertusum) 
To GenBank (8784 nucleotides; 37562 proteins) 
To GenBank (8784 nucleotides; 37562 proteins) (from synonym Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758))
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Lophelia pertusa (1) 47525) (from synonym Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758))
To NMNH Extant Collection (Lophelia pertusa (2) 47525) (from synonym Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758))
To PESI (from synonym Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (1426 records) (from synonym Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758))
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