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Ellisellidae
Ellisellidae is a Family (biology), family of soft corals. Genera The following genera are recognized within the family Ellisellidae: * ''Ctenocella'' Valenciennes, 1855 * ''Dichotella'' Gray, 1870 * ''Ellisella'' Gray, 1858 * ''Heliania'' Gray, 1860 * ''Junceella'' Valenciennes, 1855 * ''Nicella'' Gray, 1870 * ''Phenilia'' Gray, 1860 * ''Riisea'' Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 * ''Tenocella'' * ''Verrucella'' Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 * ''Viminella'' Gray, 1870 References Ellisellidae, Cnidarian families Taxa named by John Edward Gray Calcaxonia {{Octocorallia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellisella
''Ellisella'', commonly known as sea whip, is a Genus (biology), genus of soft coral in the Family (biology), family Ellisellidae. ''Ellisella'' constitutes like bushy shrub gorgonians which dominant color is brown to reddish and polyps are white with eight tentacles. Branches are more or less long according to the species, however, very few ramifications are observed in the Genus (biology), genus. Species list The following species are recognized within the genus ''Ellisella'': * ''Ellisella acacesia'' (Grasshoff, 1999) * ''Ellisella andamanensis'' (Simpson, 1910) * ''Ellisella atlantica'' (Toeplitz, 1910) * ''Ellisella aurantiaca'' (Thomson & Henderson) * ''Ellisella azilia'' (Grasshoff, 1999) * ''Ellisella candida'' (Ridley, 1882) * ''Ellisella ceratophyta'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Ellisella cercidia'' (Grasshoff, 1999) * ''Ellisella ceylonensis'' (Simpson, 1910) * ''Ellisella cylindrica'' (Toeplitz, 1919) * ''Ellisella divisa'' (Thomson & Henderson, 1905) * ''Ellisella dolfus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). The same is used for a zoological name. Gray was keeper of zoology at the British Museum in London from 1840 until Christmas 1874, before the natural history holdings were split off to the Natural History Museum. He published several catalogues of the museum collections that included comprehensive discussions of animal groups and descriptions of new species. He improved the zoological collections to make them amongst the best in the world. Biography Gray was born in Walsall, but his family soon moved to London, where Gray studied medicine. He assisted his father in writing ''The Natural Arrangement of British Plants'' (1821). After being blackballed by the Linnean Society of London, Gray shifted his interest from botany to zoology. He began his zoological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cnidarian Families
Cnidaria ( ) is a phylum under kingdom Animalia containing over 11,000 species of aquatic invertebrates found both in freshwater and marine environments (predominantly the latter), including jellyfish, hydroids, sea anemones, corals and some of the smallest marine parasites. Their distinguishing features are an uncentralized nervous system distributed throughout a gelatinous body and the presence of cnidocytes or cnidoblasts, specialized cells with ejectable flagella used mainly for envenomation and capturing prey. Their bodies consist of mesoglea, a non-living, jelly-like substance, sandwiched between two layers of epithelium that are mostly one cell thick. Cnidarians are also some of the few animals that can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Cnidarians mostly have two basic body forms: swimming medusae and sessile polyps, both of which are radially symmetrical with mouths surrounded by tentacles that bear cnidocytes, which are specialized stinging cells used to capture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family (, : ) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". The delineation of what constitutes a family—or whether a described family should be acknowledged—is established and decided upon by active taxonomists. There are not strict regulations for outlining or acknowledging a family, yet in the realm of plants, these classifications often rely on both the vegetative and reproductive characteristics of plant species. Taxonomists frequently hold varying perspectives on these descriptions, leading to a lack of widespread consensus within the scientific community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
