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

Maasella edwardsii (de Lacaze-Duthiers, 1888)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Paralcyonium Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Maasella*	Poche, 1914	accepted genus name

Literature

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	Weinberg, S. (1978). Mediterranean octocorallian communities and the abiotic environment. Marine Biology, 49, 41-57
additional source	Weinberg, S. (1978). Revision of the common Octocorallia of the Mediterranean circalittoral. III. Stolonifera. Beaufortia. 27(338): 139-176.
additional source	Weinberg, S. (1977). Revision of the common Octocorallia of the Mediterranean circalittoral II. Alcyonacea. Beaufortia. 25(326): 131-166.

Genbank

Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Maasella edwardsii (de Lacaze-Duthiers, 1888). 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:125420