Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Hexacorallia > Order Zoantharia > Suborder Macrocnemina > Family Parazoanthidae

Savalia Nardo, 1844

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Gerardia Lacaze-Duthiers, 1864 synonym

Children

Savalia savaglia (Bertoloni, 1819)

Literature

original description

Nardo, G.D. (1844). Distribuzione naturale in ordini, famiglie e generi della Classe dei Zoofitarj (Blainville). Atti della Quinta Unione degli Scienziati italiani, tenuta in Lucca, nel settembre del MDCCCXLIII. Giusti, Lucca. 844 pp.

additional source

Reimer, J.D.; Fujii, T. (2010). Four new species and one new genus of zoanthids (Cnidaria, Hexacorallia) from the Galápagos Islands. ZooKeys, 42: 1-36.

additional source

Hirose, M.; Obuchi, M.; Hirose, E.; Reimer, J. D. (2011). Timing of spawning and early development of Palythoa tuberculosa (Anthozoa, Zoantharia, Sphenopidae) in Okinawa, Japan. Biological Bulletin, 220(23-31): 23-31

additional source

Sinniger, F.; Reimer, J.D.; Pawlowski, J. (2010). The Parazoanthidae (Hexacorallia: Zoantharia) DNA taxonomy: description of two new genera. Marine Biodiversity, 40(1), 57-70.

source of synonymy

Poche, F. (1914). Das System der Coelenterata. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Abt. A 80(5): 47-128.

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Citation

Reimer, J.D.; Sinniger, F. (2025). World List of Zoantharia. Savalia Nardo, 1844. 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:383013

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2019-07-19 by Frederic Sinniger

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