Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Octocorallia > Order Scleralcyonacea > Superfamily Pennatuloidea > Family Balticinidae > Genus Balticina

Balticina christii (Koren & Danielssen, 1848)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Virgularia Lamarck, 1816

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Balticina*	Gray, 1870	accepted genus name
*Halipteris*	Kölliker, 1870	synonym

Species group names

*Halipteris christii*	(Koren & Danielssen, 1848)	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Williams, G. Pennatulacea checklist for ERMS2.
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.
source of synonymy	Williams, G. Pennatulacea checklist for ERMS2.
status source	Pérez, C. D. (2021). Revised nomenclature of the sea pen genus Balticina Gray, 1870 (= Halipteris Kölliker, 1870) (Anthozoa: Octocorallia). Zootaxa. 4966(2): 237-244.

Genbank

Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Balticina christii (Koren & Danielssen, 1848). 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:146535