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Cnidaria (Jellyfish, Corals, Sea Anemones etc.)

 

Class: Anthozoa

Subclass: Hexacorallia

Order: Actiniaria
Family: Edwardsiidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Edwardsia ivelli Manuel, 1975 Ivell's sea anenome 1983 Widewater Lagoon, West Sussex, England Missing Access

 

Order: Scleractinia
Family: Dendrophylliidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Rhizopsammia wellingtoni Wells, 1982 Wellington's solitary coral 2000 Galápagos Archipelago Missing Access

 

Family: Montastraeidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Orbicella nancyi (Pandolfi, 2007) Organ-pipe orbicella 82ka Caribbean (San Andrés; Barbados; Lesser and the Greater Antilles; Curaςao) Extinct Access

 

Family: Mussidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Scolymia cubensis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 Artichoke coral (rediscovered) Jamaica Rediscovered Access

 

Family: Oculinidae

–No subordinate taxa

 

Family: Pocilloporidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Pocillopora palmata Palmer, 1928 - Late Pleistocene Caribbean Extinct Access

 

Family: Rhizangiidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Siderastrea glynni Budd & Guzman, 1994 - 1992 Panama Invalid (synonym) Access

 

 

Order: Zoantharia
Family: Neozoanthidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Neozoanthus tulearensis Herberts, 1972 - (rediscovered) Madagascar, Ryukyu Islands, Japan & Queensland, Australia Rediscovered Access

 

Subclass: Octocorallia

Order: Alcyonacea
Family: Nidaliidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Nidalia studeri G. von Koch, 1891 - (rediscovered) Mediterranean Rediscovered Access

 

Class: Cubozoa

Order: Carybdeida
Family: Alatinidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Alatina grandis Agassiz & Mayer, 1902 - (rediscovered) French Polynesia to Arabian Sea Rediscovered Access

 

Class: Hydrozoa

Subclass: Hydroidolina

Order: Anthoathecata
Family: Acaulidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Acauloides ilonae (Brinckmann-Voss, 1966) - 1960-1961 Mediterranean  Missing  Access 

 

Family: Cladonematidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Staurocladia portmanni Brinckmann, 1964 - 1963 Mediterranean  Missing Access

 

Family: Corymorphidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Branchiocerianthus italicus Stechow, 1921 - 1905 Mediterranean  Missing  Access
             
Siphonohydra adriatica Salvini-Plawen, 1966 - 1965 Mediterranean Missing Access

 

Family: Corynidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Coryne caespes Allman, 1871 - 1871 or before Mediterranean  Missing or Invalid Access
             
Coryne fucicola (De Filipi, 1864) - (rediscovered) Mediterranean Rediscovered Access

 

Family: Milleporidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Millepora boschmai De Weerdt & Glynn, 1991 Boschmai's fire coral early 1990's Gulf of Chiriquí, Panama (& Indonesia?) Missing if valid Access

 

Family: Pandeidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Codonorchis octaedrus Haeckel, 1879 - (rediscovered) Europe Rediscovered Access
             
Merga galleri Brinckmann, 1962 - 13 July 1961 Mediterranean Missing Access

 

Family: Ptilocodiidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Tregoubovia atentaculata Picard, 1958 - 1955 or later Mediterranean Missing Access 

 

Family: Rathkeidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Lizzia octostyla (Haeckel, 1879) - - Mediterranean Erroneously listed as Missing Access 

 

Family: Rosalindidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Rosalinda incrustans Kramp, 1947 - (rediscovered) Mediterranean Rediscovered Access

 

Family: Tubulariidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Hybocodon chilensis Hartlaub, 1905 - (rediscovered) Chile Rediscovered Access

 

Order: Leptothecata
Family: Aglaopheniidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Gymnangium sibogae (Billard, 1913) - (rediscovered) Indonesia (including the Moluccas) Rediscovered Access

 

Family: Laodiceidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Melicertissa adriatica Neppi, 1915 - 1922 or before Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean  Missing Access 

 

Family: Lovenellidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Eucheilota maasi Neppi & Stiasny, 1911 - 1913-1914 Mediterranean Missing or Rediscovered Access
             
Hydranthea aloysii (Zoja, 1893) - 1953 Mediterranean Missing if valid Access

 

Family: Melicertidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Orchistomella graeffei (Neppi & Stiasny, 1911) - 1966 Mediterranean  Missing if valid Access 

 

Family: Plumulariidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Callicarpa chazaliei Versluys, 1899 - (rediscovered) Brazil, Florida & Venezuela Rediscovered Access
             
Plumularia syriaca Billard, 1931 - 1929 Mediterranean Missing Access

 

Family: Tiaropsidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Octogonade mediterranea Zoja, 1896 - 1922 or before Mediterranean  Missing  Access 
             
Tiaropsidium mediterraneum (Metschnikoff, 1886) - 1914 Mediterranean Missing Access

 

 

Subclass: Trachylinae

Order: Limnomedusae
Family: Olindiidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Astrohydra japonica Hashimoto, 1981 yume-no-kurage (rediscovered) Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan Rediscovered Access
             
Craspedacusta iseanum (Oka & Hara, 1922) - c.1922 Japan Missing Access

 

Order: Narcomedusae
Family: Cuninidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Cunina polygonia (Haeckel, 1879) - 1877-1878 Mediterranean Missing if valid Access
             
Cunina proboscidea Metschnikoff & Metschnikoff, 1871 - 1962 Mediterranean Missing Access

 

 

Class: Myxozoa

Subclass: Myxosporea

Order: Bivalvulida
Family: Sphaerosporidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Sphaerospora ranae Morelle, 1929 - (rediscovered) Czech Republic Rediscovered Access

 

Class: Scyphozoa

Subclass: Discomedusae

Order: Rhizostomeae
Family: Catostylidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Crambione cookii Mayer, 1910 - (rediscovered) Queensland, Australia Rediscovered Access

 

Appendix 1: Rediscovery turned out to be a new species

Galaxea paucisepta:

Claereboudt, M. (1990). Galaxea paucisepta nom. nov. (for G. pauciradiata), rediscovery and redescription of a poorly known scleractinian species (Oculinidae). Galaxea 9: 1-8.

Hoeksema, B. W. (1993). Some misapplied nomina nova in reef coral taxonomy (Scleractinia). Zoologische Mededelingen 67(3): 41-47.

 

Statistics

Conservation status Number of taxa (in percentage)
   
Extinct 2 (5.4%)
Missing 14 (37.84%)
Extinct in the Wild 0
Possibly Extinct in the Wild 0
Globally Rediscovered 13 (35.14%)
Rediscovered in the Wild 0
Hypothetical 0
Invalid 1 (2.7%)
Erroneously listed 1 (2.7%)
Uncertain status 6 (16.22%)
   
Total 37

 

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