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

Umbellula Cuvier, [1797]

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Umbellula*	Gray, 1870	synonym
*Umbellularia*	Lamarck, 1801	synonym

Children

Umbellula encrinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Umbellula huxleyi Kölliker, 1880
Umbellula lindahli Kölliker, 1875
Umbellula thomsoni (Kölliker, 1874)

Literature

original description	Cuvier, G. (1797). Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux. [Elementary table of the natural history of animals.]. Baudoin, Paris. i-xvi, 1-710, Pl. 1-14. [pdf is for copepods :449-456].
status source	ICZN. (1998). Opinion 1903. Umbellula Cuvier, [1797] (Cnidaria, Anthozoa): conserved as the correct original spelling, and corrections made to the entries relating to Umbellularia Lamarck, 1801 on the Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 55(3), 187-188.
status source	Bayer, F.M.; Grasshoff, M. (1997). Case 2999. Umbellula Cuvier, [1797] (Cnidaria, Anthozoa): proposed conservation as the correct original spelling, and corrections to the entries relating to Umbellularia Lamarck, 1801 on the Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 54(1): 14-18.

Genbank

Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Umbellula Cuvier, [1797]. 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:1757986