Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Octocorallia > Order Malacalcyonacea

Acanthogorgiidae Gray, 1859

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Paramuriceidae*	Bayer, 1956	synonym

Children

Acanthogorgia Gray, 1857
Bebryce Philippi, 1842
Dentomuricea Grasshoff, 1977
Echinomuricea Verrill, 1869
Muriceides Wright & Studer, 1889
Paramuricea Kölliker, 1865
Placogorgia Wright & Studer, 1889
Spinimuricea Grasshoff, 1992
Villogorgia Duchassaing & Michelloti, 1860

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: トゲヤギ科

Literature

original description	Gray, J.E. (1859). On the arrangement of zoophytes with pinnated tentacles. Annals and Magazine of natural History. (3) 4: 439-444.
basis of record	van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), 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. 104-105
additional source	Kükenthal, W.; Gorzawsky, H. (1908). Diagnosen neuer japanischer Gorgoniden (Reise Doflein 1904-05). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 32: 621-631.
status source	McFadden, C.S.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Quattrini, A.M. (2022). Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists. 1(3), 8735, pp. 1-79.

Genbank

Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Acanthogorgiidae Gray, 1859. 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:125272