Anthozoans
Original title: Antozoarios
Bibliographic note on the anthozoans (corals and sea anemones) of Madeira, listing the nineteenth-century papers of James Yate Johnson, J. E. Gray and P. Martin Duncan.
These marine animals, also called coralliaria, have been studied by the following authors. James Yate Johnson wrote, among other works:
- Notes of the Sea-Anemones of Madeira, With Descriptions of New Species (Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1861)
- Description of a Second Species of Acanthagorgia from Madeira (ibid., 1861)
- Descriptions of some New Corals from Madeira (ibid., 1862)
- Description of Two Corals from Madeira, belonging to the genera Trimnoa and Mopsea (ibid., 1862)
- Description of a New Species of Flexible Coral belonging to the Genus Juncella obtained at Madeira (ibid., 1863)
- Notes on the Coralliidae of Madeira, With Descriptions of two new Species (ibid., 1899).
John Edward Gray published Notice of a Second Species of Paragorgia discovered in Madeira by James Yate Johnson (Annals and Magasine of Natural History, 1862). P. Martin Duncan wrote On some recent Corals from Madeira (Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1882).
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People mentioned · 03- James Yate Johnson1820–1900
Naturalist who published several papers (1861–1899) describing sea anemones and new corals from Madeira.
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Zoologist who in 1862 described a second species of Paragorgia discovered in Madeira by Johnson.
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Zoologist who wrote on recent corals from Madeira in 1882.