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

Pteroeides esperi Herklots, 1858

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pteroeides*	Herklots, 1858	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Pteroeides tenerum*	Kölliker, 1869	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: クシバネトゲウミエラ

Literature

original description	Herklots, J.A. (1858). Notices pour servir à l'étude des polypiers nageurs ou pennatulides. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. 7: 1-31, plates 1-7.
basis of record	G.C. Williams and J. van der Land (eds), update 2004-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms
additional source	Gray, J.E. (1860). II. Revision of the family Pennatulidae, with descriptions of some new species in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany and Geology, Series 3. 5(25-30): 20-25.
additional source	Marshall, A.M.; Fowler, G.H. (1888). Report on the Pennatulida of the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum. The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology. 21(132): 267-286.
additional source	Kükenthal, W. (1915). Pennatularia. Das Tierreich. 43: 1-132.
additional source	Kükenthal, W.; Broch, H. (1911). Pennatulacea. Wissensch. Ergebn. Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition "Valdivia". 13(1), 2: i-iv + 113-576, plates 13-29.
additional source	Williams G.C. (1995). Living genera of sea pens (Coelenterata: Pennatulacea): illustrated key and synopses. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 113, pp. 93-140.
additional source	Thomson, J.A.; Simpson, J.J. (1909). An account of the alcyonarians collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship 'Investigator' in the Indian Ocean. II. The alcyonarians of the littoral area. Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 2: 1-319, 9 plates.
additional source	Williams, G.C. (1999). Index Pennatulacea: annotated bibliography and indexes of the Sea Pens (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) of the World 1469-1999. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 51(2): 19-103.
additional source	Williams, G.C. (1999). Index Pennatulacea: annotated bibliography and indexes of the Sea Pens (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) of the World 1469-1999. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 51(2): 19-103, 1 fig., 14 plates.
additional source	Kölliker, A. von. (1880). Report on the Pennatulida dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876, Zoology. 1(2): 1-41, plates 1-11.
additional source	Kölliker, A. von. (1869). Anatomisch-systematische Beschreibung der Alcyonarien. Erste Abtheilung: Die Pennatuliden. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 7: 111-255, plates 1-15.
additional source	Imahara, Y. (1996). Previously recorded octocorals from Japan and adjacent seas. Precious Corals and Octocoral Research, 4-mei, 17-44

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Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Pteroeides esperi Herklots, 1858. 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:286653