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

Balticina finmarchica (Sars, 1851)

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 finmarchica*	(Sars, 1851)	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Nutting, C.C. (1909). Alcyonaria of the Californian coast. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 35: 681-727, plates 84-91.
additional source	Kükenthal, W. (1915). Pennatularia. Das Tierreich. 43: 1-132.
additional source	Gray, J.E. (1870). Catalogue of sea-pens or Pennatulariidae in the collection of the British Museum / by J.E. Gray.
additional source	Williams, G.C. (1990). The Pennatulacea of southern Africa (Coelenterata, Anthozoa). Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. 99:31-119.
additional source	Nutting, C.C. (1912). Descriptions of the Alcyonaria collected by the U.S. Fisheries steamer "Albatross," mainly in Japanese waters, during 1906. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum. 43:1-104, plates 1-21.
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	Imahara, Y. (1996). Previously recorded octocorals from Japan and adjacent seas. Precious Corals and Octocoral Research, 4-mei, 17-44
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.
new combination reference	Gray, J.E. (1870). Catalogue of sea-pens or Pennatulariidae in the collection of the British Museum / by J.E. Gray.
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 finmarchica (Sars, 1851). 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:584787