Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Bryozoa > Class Gymnolaemata > Order Ctenostomatida > Suborder Alcyonidiina > Superfamily Alcyonidioidea > Family Alcyonidiidae

Alcyonidium Lamouroux, 1813

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Sarcochitum*	Hassall, 1841	generic synonym

Children

Alcyonidium albidum Alder, 1857
Alcyonidium candidum Ryland, 1963
Alcyonidium cellarioides Calvet, 1900
Alcyonidium condylocinereum Porter, 2004
Alcyonidium diaphanum (Hudson, 1778)
Alcyonidium disciforme Smitt, 1872
Alcyonidium duplex Prouho, 1892
Alcyonidium gelatinosum (Linnaeus, 1761)
Alcyonidium hirsutum (Fleming, 1828)
Alcyonidium hydrocoalitum Porter, 2004
Alcyonidium mamillatum Alder, 1857
Alcyonidium parasiticum (Fleming, 1828)
Alcyonidium polyoum (Hassall, 1841)
Alcyonidium variegatum Prouho, 1892
Alcyonidium vicarians d'Hondt & Chimenz Gusso, 2006

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: zeevinger

Literature

original description	Lamouroux, J. V. F. (1813). Essai sur les genres de la famille des thalassiophytes non articulées. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle [Paris]. 20: 21-47, 115-139, 267-293.
basis of record	Hayward, P.J. (2001). Bryozoa, 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. 325-333
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Gordon, D. P.; Taylor, P. D.; Bigey, F. P. (2009). Phylum Bryozoa: moss animals, sea mats, lace corals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 271-297.
additional source	Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 41: 47-114.
additional source	De_blauwe, H. (2009). Mosdiertjes van de Zuidelijke Bocht van de Noordzee: Determinatiewerk voor België en Nederland. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee, Oostende. 464.