Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Muricea plantaginea
Gorgonia, Gorgonian
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Class
Anthozoa
Order
Alcyonacea
Suborder
Holaxonia
Family
Plexauridae
Genus
Muricea
Species
plantaginea
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Muricea appressa Verrill, 1864; Syn.: Gorgonia plantaginea Valenciennes, 1846, Muricea appressa Verrill, 1864, Muricea appressa var. flavescens Verrill, 1869, Muricea tenella Verrill, 1869 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Ahyong, S Et. al. (2025) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ. doi:10.14284/170
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Steiner, S. C. Martínez, P., Rivera, F., Johnston, M., & Riegl, B. M. (2020) Octocoral populations and connectivity in continental Ecuador and Galápagos, Eastern Pacific. In Advances in Marine Biology (Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 411-441). Academic Press.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Muricea plantaginea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19765. Accessed 5 November 2026.