Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Hexacorallia > Order Zoantharia > Suborder Macrocnemina > Family Epizoanthidae > Genus Epizoanthus

Epizoanthus abyssorum Verrill, 1885

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Epizoanthus*	Gray, 1867	accepted genus name
*Mardoell*	Danielssen, 1890	synonym

Literature

original description	Verrill, A. E. (1885). Notice of the remarkable marine fauna occupying the outer banks off the southern coast of New England No. 11. American Journal of Science, series 3. 29: 149-157.
basis of record	van der Land, J.; den Hartog, J.H. (2001). Actiniaria, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 106-109
additional source	Verrill, A. E. (1885). Results of the explorations made by the Steamer Albatross off the northern coast of the United States, in 1883. Annual Report of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Washington. 11, 503-699, plates 1-43 (begin p.604).
additional source	Haddon, A. and Shackleton, A. (1891). A revision of the British actiniæ. Part II.: The Zoantheæ. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society. 4 (12): 609-672.
additional source	Seifert, R. (1928). Die Nesselkapseln der Zoantharien und ihre differentialdiagnostische Bedeutung. Zoologische Jahrbücher Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere, 55, 419-500
additional source	Muirhead, A. M.; Tyler, P. A. (1986). Reproductive biology and growth of the genus Epizoanthus (Zoanthidea) from the north-east Atlantic. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 66, 131-143
additional source	Walsh, G. E. (1967). An Annotated Bibliography of the Families Zoanthidae, Epizoanthidae, and Parazoanthidae (Coelenterata, Zoantharia). Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. Honolulu., pp. 77.
additional source	Tyler, P. A.; Muirhead, A. M.; Colman, J. (1984). Observations on continuous reproduction in large deep-sea epibenthos. Proceedings of the Nineteenth European Marine Biology Symposium: Plymouth, Devon, U. K. 16-21 September, 1984, 223-230
additional source	Boscolo, H. K.; Silveira, F. L. (2005). Reproductive biology of Palythoa caribaeorum and Protopalythoa variabilis (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Zoanthidea) from the southeastern coast of Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology, 65, 1, 29-41
additional source	Ates, R. M. L. (2003). A preliminary review of zoanthid-hermit crab symbioses (Cnidaria, Zoantharia/Crustacea, Paguridea). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 345, 41-48
additional source	Ryland, J. S.; Babcock, R. C. (1991). Annual cycle of gametogenesis and spawning in a tropical zoanthid, Protopalythoa sp. Hydrobiologia, 216/217, 117-123
additional source	Lwowsky, F.F., 1913. Revision der Gattung Sidisia Gray (Epizoanthus Auct.). Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Zooanthiden. Zool. Jb., Syst. 34 5-6: 557-614.
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1913). Zoantharia. The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. 5(4): 1-62.
additional source	Sebens, K. P. (1998). Anthozoa: Actiniaria, Zoanthidea, Corallimorpharia, and Ceriantharia. National Marine Fisheries Service. Seattle., volume 141, pp. 1-67
additional source	Ryland, J. S. (1997). Reproduction in Zoanthidea (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia). Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, 31(1-3): 177-188
additional source	Fautin, D. G. (1997). Cnidarian reproduction: assumptions and their implications. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Coelenterate Biology, 151-162

Genbank

Citation

Reimer, J.D.; Sinniger, F. (2025). World List of Zoantharia. Epizoanthus abyssorum Verrill, 1885. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101021