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

Isididae Lamouroux, 1812

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Isideae*	Lamouroux, 1812	orthographic variant

Children

Isis Linnaeus, 1758

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: bamboo corals sources: Dueñas, L.F.; Alderslade, P.; Sánchez, J.A. (2014). Molecular systematics of the deep-sea bamboo corals (Octocorallia: Isididae: Keratoisidinae) from New Zealand with descriptions of two new species of Keratoisis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Available online 11 February 2014.

Japanese: トクササンゴ科

Literature

basis of record	van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 104-105
redescription	McFadden, C.S.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Quattrini, A.M. (2022). Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists. 1(3), 8735, pp. 1-79.
status source	Heestand Saucier, E.; France, S.C.; Watling, L. (2021). Toward a revision of the bamboo corals: Part 3, deconstructing the Family Isididae. Zootaxa 5047(3): 247-272.

Genbank

Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Isididae Lamouroux, 1812. 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:125276