Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Octocorallia > Order Scleralcyonacea > Family Primnoidae

Primnoella Gray, 1858

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Literature

original description	Gray, J.E. (1857). Synopsis of the families and genera of axiferous zoophytes or barked corals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 25 (1): 278-294.
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	Cairns, S.D. & F.M. Bayer. (2005). A review of the genus Primnoa (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea: Primnoidae), with the description of two new species. Bulletin of Marine Science. 77(2), 225-256.
additional source	Bayer, F. M. (1949). Chalcogorgiinae, a new subfamily of Chrysogorgiidae (Coelenterata: Alcyonaria), and a description of Chalcogorgia pellucida, new genus and new species, from the Straits of Florida. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 39(7): 237-240.
additional source	Cairns, S.D. & F.M. Bayer. (2009). A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Primnoidae (Cnidaria:Octocorallia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington DC (USA). 629:1-79.
additional source	Bayer, F. M. (1982). Some new and old species of the primnoid genus Callogorgia Gray, with a revalidation of the related genus Fanellia Gray (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 95(1): 116–160.
additional source	López-González, P.J.; Gili, J.-M.; Orejas, C. (2002). A new primnoid genus (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the Southern Ocean. Scientia Marina. 66(4): 383-397.
additional source	Orejas, C.; Gili, J.; López-González, P. J.; Hasemann, C.; Arntz, W. E. (2007). Reproduction patterns of four Antarctic octocorals in the Weddell Sea: an inter-specific, shape, and latitudinal comparison. Marine Biology, 150, 551-563
additional source	Versluys, J. (1906). Die Gorgoniden der Siboga-Expedition. II. Die Primnoidae. Siboga Expeditie, Monograph, Leiden XIIIa (livr. xxvii): 1-187, figs. 1-178, pls. 1-10, map. (i-1906).
additional source	Hickson, S.J. (1915). Some Alcyonaria and a Stylaster from the west coast of North America. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1915: 541-557, plate 1.
additional source	Williams, G. C. (1992). The Alcyonacea of southern Africa. Gorgonian octocorals (Coelenterata, Anthozoa). Annals of the South African Museum. 101(8): 181-296, Fig. 1.
additional source	van Ofwegen, L.P.; Häussermann, V.; Försterra, G. (2006). A new genus of soft coral (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Clavulariidae) from Chile. Zootaxa. 1219, 47-57.
additional source	Bayer, F. M. (1996). New primnoid gorgonians (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from antarctic waters. Bulletin of Marine Science. 58(2): 511-530.
additional source	Williams, G.C. (1992). Biogeography of the octocorallian coelenterate fauna of southern Africa. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 46: 351-401.
additional source	Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
additional source	Bayer, F. M.; Stefani, J. (1989). Primnoidae (Gorgonacea) de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. (4) 10 (3):449–518, 1 fig., 42 pls.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Bayer, F. M. (1952). Two new species of Arthrogorgia (Gorgonacea: Primnoidae) from the Aleutian Islands region. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 65, 63-69, plate 2
additional source	Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. :59-101.
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.

Genbank

Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Primnoella Gray, 1858. 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:125322