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

Acanthogorgia hirsuta Gray, 1857

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acanthogorgia*	Gray, 1857	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Paramuricea hirsuta*	(Gray, 1857)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: hairy sea fan 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 hirsute

Literature

original description	Gray, J.E. (1857). Description of a new genus of Gorgoniadae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1857: 128-129, plate 7.
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	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	Stiasny, G. (1947). De Gorgonarien-Familie Acanthogorgiidae Kükenth. & Gorz. (Met bijzondere Inachtneming van het Materiaal der Siboga-Expeditie). Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. Amsterdam, Afd. Natuurk., sect. 2, vol. 43 no. 2, pp. 1-93, 3 pls.
additional source	Grasshoff, M. (1973). Die gorgonaria des östlichen nordatlantik un des mittelmeeres II. Die Gattung Acanthogorgia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Auswertund der "Atlantischen Kuppenfahrten 1967" von F.S. "Meteor". Meteor-Forschungs Ergebnisse. Reihe D, 13: 1-10.
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	Carpine, C., Grasshoff, M. (1975). Les gorgonaires de la Méditerranée. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco. 7(430), 140 p.
additional source	Grasshoff, M. (1999). The shallow water gorgonians of New Caledonia and adjacent islands. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 1-2, 1-121
additional source	Grasshoff, M. (1992). Die Flachwasser-Gorgonarien von Europa und Westafrika (Cnidaria, Anthozoa). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Band 149. Frankfurt a. M., 135 pp.

Genbank

Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Acanthogorgia hirsuta Gray, 1857. 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:125349