Millepora compressa Sowerby, 1806

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

SPECIES

Published in

Sowerby, J. (1806). The British miscellany; or, Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects : many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles: and chiefly in the possession of the author, James Sowerby. R. Taylor & Co., London, Vol. 1-2 136 pp., 76 plates.

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Bryozoa

class

Gymnolaemata

order

Cheilostomatida

family

Bryocryptellidae

genus

Porella

species

Porella compressa

Name

Homonyms

Millepora compressa Sowerby, 1806

Millepora compressa Linnaeus, 1758

Bibliographic References

1. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 967 Porella Gray, 1848 (Polyzoa): designation of Typespecies under the Plenary Powers.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 28, 83-84 (1971)
2. Sowerby, J. (1805). The British miscellany; or, Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects : many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles: and chiefly in the possession of the author, James Sowerby. R. Taylor & Co., London, No.2: 13-21, pls.5-8.