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A Melithaea a virágállatok (Anthozoa) osztályának a szarukorallok (Alcyonacea) rendjébe, ezen belül a Scleraxonia alrendjébe és a Melithaeidae családjába tartozó nem.

Alcsaládjának az egyetlen neme és családjának a típusneme.

Rendszerezés A nembe az alábbi 113 faj tartozik:

Melithaea acuta (Gray, 1870) Melithaea africana (Kükenthal, 1908) Melithaea akalyx (Kükenthal, 1908) Melithaea albitincta (Ridley, 1884) Melithaea amboinensis (Hentschel, 1903) Melithaea andamanensis (van Ofwegen, 1987) Melithaea arborea (Kükenthal, 1908) Melithaea atrorubens (Gray, 1870) Melithaea aurantia (Esper, 1798) Melithaea australis (Gray, 1868) Melithaea baladea (Grasshoff, 1999) Melithaea bicolor (Nutting, 1908) Melithaea biserialis (Kükenthal, 1908) Melithaea boninensis Matsumoto & van Ofwegen, 2015 Melithaea braueri (Kükenthal, 1919) Melithaea caledonica Grasshoff, 1999 Melithaea capensis (Studer, 1878) Melithaea cinquemiglia (Grasshoff, 1999) Melithaea clavigera (Ridley, 1884) Melithaea coccinea (Ellis & Solander, 1786) Melithaea contorta Dean, 1932 Melithaea corymbosa (Kükenthal, 1908) Melithaea delicata (Hickson, 1940) Melithaea dichotoma (Linnaeus, 1758) Melithaea divaricata (Gray, 1859) Melithaea doederleini Matsumoto & van Ofwegen, 2015 Melithaea dubia (Broch, 1916) Melithaea ellisi (Hickson, 1937) Melithaea elongata (Gray, 1859) Melithaea erythraea (Ehrenberg, 1834) Melithaea esperi (Wright & Studer, 1889) Melithaea flabellata (Gray, 1870) Melithaea flabellum (Thomson & Mackinnon, 1910) Melithaea formosa (Nutting, 1911) Melithaea fragilis (Wright & Studer, 1889) Melithaea frondosa (Brundin, 1896) Melithaea furcata (Thomson, 1916) Melithaea gracilis (Gray, 1859) Melithaea gracillima (Ridley, 1884) Melithaea haddoni (Hickson, 1937) Melithaea harbereri (Kükenthal, 1908) Melithaea hendersoni Reijnen, McFadden, Hermanlimianto & van Ofwegen, 2014 Melithaea hicksoni (Nutting, 1911) Melithaea isonoi Matsumoto & van Ofwegen, 2015 Melithaea japonica (Verrill, 1865) †Melithaea keramaensis Matsumoto & van Ofwegen, 2015 Melithaea klunzingeri (Kükenthal, 1908) Melithaea kuea (Grasshoff, 1999) Melithaea laevis (Wright & Studer, 1889) Melithaea linearis (Gray, 1870) Melithaea mabahissi (Hickson, 1940) Melithaea maldivensis (van Ofwegen, 1987) Melithaea mcqueeni Reijnen, McFadden, Hermanlimianto & van Ofwegen, 2014 Melithaea mertoni (Kükenthal, 1909) Melithaea modesta (Kükenthal, 1908) Melithaea moluccana (Kükenthal, 1896) Melithaea mutsu (Minobe, 1929) Melithaea nodosa (Wright & Studer, 1889) Melithaea nuttingi (Hickson, 1937) Melithaea occidentalis Duchassaing, 1870 Melithaea ochracea (Linnaeus, 1758) - típusfaj Melithaea omanensis (van Ofwegen, 1987) Melithaea ornata (Thomson & Simpson, 1909) Melithaea ouvea (Grasshoff, 1999) Melithaea oyeni Matsumoto & van Ofwegen, 2015 Melithaea philippinensis (Wright & Studer, 1889) Melithaea planiloca (Ridley, 1888) Melithaea planoregularis (Kükenthal, 1909) Melithaea pulchella (Thomson & Simpson, 1909) Melithaea pulchra (Hickson, 1937) Melithaea ramulosa (Kükenthal, 1909) Melithaea retifera (Lamarck, 1816) Melithaea robusta (Shann, 1912) Melithaea roemeri (Kükenthal, 1908) Melithaea rubeola (Wright & Studer, 1889) Melithaea rubra (Esper, 1789) Melithaea rubrinodis (Gray, 1859) Melithaea rugosa (Wright & Studer, 1889) Melithaea ryukyuensis Matsumoto & van Ofwegen, 2015 Melithaea sagamiensis Matsumoto & van Ofwegen, 2015 Melithaea sanguinea (Kükenthal, 1908) Melithaea satsumaensis Matsumoto & van Ofwegen, 2015 Melithaea serrata (Ridley, 1884) Melithaea shanni Reijnen, McFadden, Hermanlimianto & van Ofwegen, 2014 Melithaea sinaica (Grasshoff, 2000) Melithaea singularis (Thomson, 1916) Melithaea sinuata (Wright & Studer, 1889) Melithaea spinosa (Kükenthal, 1878) Melithaea splendens (Thomson & McQueen, 1908) Melithaea spongiosa (Nutting, 1911) Melithaea squamata (Nutting, 1911) Melithaea squarrosa (Kükenthal, 1909) Melithaea stiasnyi (van Ofwegen, 1989) Melithaea stormii (Studer, 1895) Melithaea studeri (Nutting, 1911) Melithaea suensoni Matsumoto & van Ofwegen, 2015 Melithaea superba (Kükenthal, 1919) Melithaea tanseii Matsumoto & van Ofwegen, 2015 Melithaea tenella (Dana, 1846) Melithaea tenuis (Kükenthal, 1908) Melithaea textiformis (Lamarck, 1815) Melithaea thomsoni (Broch, 1916) Melithaea thorpeae Reijnen, McFadden, Hermanlimianto & van Ofwegen, 2014 Melithaea tokaraensis Matsumoto & van Ofwegen, 2015 Melithaea tongaensis (Kükenthal, 1908) Melithaea triangulata (Nutting, 1911) Melithaea trilineata (Thomson, 1917) Melithaea undulata (Kükenthal, 1908) Melithaea valdiviae (Kükenthal, 1908) Melithaea variabilis (Hickson, 1905) Melithaea virgata (Verrill, 1846) Melithaea wrighti Reijnen, McFadden, Hermanlimianto & van Ofwegen, 2014 Melithaea zimmeri (Kükenthal, 1908)

A Melithaea squamosa Nutting nomen nudumnak, azaz „csupasz névnek” számít, mivel tudományos névnek tűnik, ám nem az, mivel (még) nem publikálták egy megfelelő leírás kíséretében.

Források Melithaea Milne Edwards, 1857 WoRMS Goh, N.K.C. & L.M. Chou (1996). An annotated checklist of the gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) of Singapore, with a discussion of the gorgonian diversity in the Indo-West Pacific. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 44 (2): 435-459. Melithaeinae Alderslade, 2007 WoRMS Alderslade, P. (2007). New subfamilies and a new genus and species of Melithaeidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) with comparative data on the structure of both melithaeid and subergorgiid axes. Zootaxa. 1199: 19–47. L.P. van Ofwegen, S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds). (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms.

További információk Matsumoto, A.K. & Ofwegen, L.P.van 2015. Melithaeidae of Japan (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) re-examined with descriptions of 11 new species. Zookeys, 522: 1-127. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.522.10294 Full article reference page Reijnen, B.T. et al. 2014: A molecular and morphological exploration of the generic boundaries in the family Melithaeidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) and its taxonomic consequences. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 70: 383-401. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.09.028 reference page

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