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

Thesea Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Thesea talismani Grasshoff, 1986

Literature

original description	Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1860). Mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin, séries 2. 19: 279-365, pls 1-10.
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	Bayer, F.M. (1981). Key to the genera of Octocorallia exclusive of Pennatulacea (Coelenterata: Anthozoa), with diagnoses of new taxa. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 94(3): 902-947.
additional source	Bayer, F.M. (1961). The shallow-water Octocorallia of the West Indian region. A manual for marine biologists. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and Other Caribbean Islands. 12:1-373, pls. 1-23.
additional source	van Ofwegen, L.P.; Benayahu, Y. (2006). A new genus of paralcyoniid soft corals (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea, Paralcyoniidae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Journal of the Japanese Coral Reef Society. 8(1): 25-37.
additional source	Wirshing, H. H.; Messing, C. G.; Douady, C. J.; Reed, J. K.; Stanhope, M. J. (2005). Molecular evidence for multiple lineages in the gorgonian family Plexauridae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia). Marine Biology, 147, 497-508
additional source	Deichmann, E. (1936). The Alcyonaria of the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College. 53: 1-317, plates 1-37.
additional source	Bayer, F.M. (1979). Adelogorgia telones, a new species of gorgonacean coral (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 91(4): 1026-1036.
additional source	Horvath, E. A. (2019). A review of gorgonian coral species (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) held in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History research collection: focus on species from Scleraxonia, Holaxonia, Calcaxonia – Part III: Suborder Holaxonia continued, and suborder Calcaxonia. ZooKeys. 860: 183-306.
additional source	Bayer, F. M. (1991). Thelogorgia, a new genus of gorgonacean octocorals, with descriptions of four new species from the western Atlantic. Bulletin of marine science. 49(1-2), 506-537.
additional source	Hickson, S. J. (1930). On the classification of the Alcyonaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, XIV, 229-252
additional source	Bayer, F. M. (1958). Les Octocoralliaires plexaurides des cótes occidentals d'Amérique. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Série A (Zoologie). 16 (2), 41–56.
additional source	Breedy, O.; Guzmán, H. M. (2003). Octocorals from Costa Rica: The genus Pacifigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae). Auckland: Magnolia Press.
additional source	Grigg, R. W. & F.M. Bayer. (1976). Present knowledge of the systematics and zoogeography of the order Gorgonacea in Hawaii. Pacific Science. 30(2): 167-175.
additional source	Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
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. Thesea Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860. 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:125315