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

Muriceides sceptrum (Studer, 1891)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Clematissa Wright & Studer, 1889

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Muriceides*	Wright & Studer, 1889	accepted genus name
*Clematissa*	Wright & Studer, 1889	synonym

Species group names

*Muricea paucituberculata*	Marion, 1906	synonym
*Muriceides paucituberculata*	(Marion, 1906)	synonym

Literature

additional source	Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
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	Grasshoff, M. (1977). Die Gorgonarien des östlichen Nordatlantik und des Mittelmeeres III. Die Familie Paramuriceidae (Cnidaria, Anthozoa). "Meteor" Forsch.-Ergebnisse, Reihe D. 27: 5-76.
additional source	Sánchez, J. A. (2007). A new genus of Atlantic octocorals (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae): systematics of gorgoniids with asymmetric sclerites. Journal of Natural History. 41(9-12): 493-509.
source of synonymy	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).

Genbank

Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Muriceides sceptrum (Studer, 1891). 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:292017