Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Octocorallia > Order Scleralcyonacea > Family Coralliidae > Subfamily Anthomastinae > Genus Anthomastus

Anthomastus grandiflorus Verrill, 1878

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Anthomastus*	Verrill, 1878	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: large-polyped deep-sea soft coral sources: National General Status Working Group [Groupe de travail national sur la situation générale]. (2017). Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada [Noms communs normalisés pour les espèces sauvages au Canada].

French: corail à grands polypes

Literature

original description	Verrill, A. E. (1878). Art. 46. Notice of recent additions to the marine fauna of the eastern coast of North America, No. 2. American Journal of Science and Arts. 16(95):371-378.
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	Verrill, A. E. (1922). The Alcyonaria of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, with a revision of some other Canadian genera and species. Report on the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1918, 8, G, G3-G87
additional source	Jurgensen, H. F. E. (1927). Anthomastus. The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. Bianco Luno. Copenhagen. 5: 1-14.
additional source	Hickson, S.J. (1904). The Alcyonaria of the Cape of Good Hope, Part II. Marine Investigations in South Africa. 3: 211-239, plates 7-9.
additional source	Kükenthal, W. (1906). Alcyonacea. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer “Valdivia”, 1898–1899. 13: 1-111, plates 1-12.
additional source	Williams, G.C. (1992). The Alcyonacea of southern Africa. Stoloniferous octocorals and soft corals (Coelenterata, Anthozoa). Annals of the South African Museum. 100: 249-358.
additional source	Verrill, A. E. (1922). Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Volume III: Mollusks, Echinoderms, Coelenterates, etc. Part G: Alcyonaria and Actiniaria. F. A. Acland, Ottawa, Canada, 165 pp.
additional source	López-González, P. J.; Gili, J. M. (2000). A new octocoral genus (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from Antarctic waters. Polar Biology. 23: 452-458.
additional source	Bayer, F. M. (1995). A new genus of alcyonacean coral (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from Caribbean waters. Bulletin of marine science. 56(2): 620-624.
additional source	Benham, W.B. (1928). On some alcyonarians from New Zealand waters. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 59: 67-84.
additional source	Bayer, F. M. (1993). Taxonomic status of the octocoral genus Bathyalcyon (Alcyoniidae: Anthomastinae), with descriptions of a new subspecies from the Gulf of Mexico and a new species of Anthomastus from Antarctic waters. Precious Corals and Octocoral Research. 1: 3–13.
additional source	Madsen, F. J. (1944). Octocorallia (Stolonifera - Telestacea - Xeniidae - Alcyonacea - Gorgonacea). The Danish Ingolf-Expedition, Vol. V. Bianco Luno A/S. 5(13): 1-65.
additional source	Kükenthal, W. (1910). Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Anthomastus Verr. Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte Ostasiens. Herausgegeben von Dr. F. Doflein. Abhandlungen der math.-phys. Klasse der K. Bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften. I. Suppl. 9: 1-15, plate 1.
additional source	Sherwood, O. A.; Jamieson, R. E.; Edinger, E. N.; Wareham, V. E. (2008). Stable C and N isotopic composition of cold-water corals from the Newfoundland and Labrador continental slope: Examination of trophic, depth and spatial effects. Deep-Sea Research, 55, 1392-1402
additional source	Watling, L.; Auster, P. (2005). Distribution of deep-water Alcyonacea off the Northeast Coast of the United States. In: Freiwald, A., R.J. Murray, editors. Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems. Proceedings of the Second Deep-Sea Coral Symposium. 279-296.
additional source	Molodtsova, T.N., 2013. Deep-sea mushroom soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae) of the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Marine Biology Research 9 (5-6): 488-515.
additional source	Tixier-Durivault, A.; d'Hondt, M.J. (1974). Les octocoralliaires de la campagne Biacores. Bulletin de la Museum Nationale d'Histoire naturelle Paris, Ser. 3. 252: 1361-1433.
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	Verrill, A.E. (1883). Report on the Anthozoa, and on some additional species dredged by the "Blake" in 1877-1879, and by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Fish Hawk" in 1880-82. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard. 11: 1-72, plates 1-8.
additional source	d'Hondt, M.J. (1992). Description d'Anthomastus globosus n. sp. (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) de Nouvelle-Caledonie. Remarques sur quelques especes de genre. Bulletin de la Museum Nationale d'Histoire naturelle Paris, Ser. 4. 14, sect. A (3-4): 623-638.
additional source	Mortensen, P. B.; Buhl-Mortensen, L. (2005). Deep-water corals and their habitats in The Gully, a submarine canyon off Atlantic Canada. André Freiwald and J. Murray Roberts (eds.). Springer. Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 247-277

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Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Anthomastus grandiflorus Verrill, 1878. 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:125335