WoRMS taxon details
Corallium medea Bayer, 1964
177725 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177725)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Bayer, F. M. (1964). The Genus Corallium (Gorgonacea: Scleraxonia) in the Western North Atlantic Ocean. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean.</em> 14 (3): 465-478. [details] Available for editors 
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McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Corallium medea Bayer, 1964. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=177725 on 2025-09-13
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Bayer, F. M. (1964). The Genus Corallium (Gorgonacea: Scleraxonia) in the Western North Atlantic Ocean. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean.</em> 14 (3): 465-478. [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Watling, L.; Auster, P. (2005). Distribution of deep-water Alcyonacea off the Northeast Coast of the United States. In: Freiwald, A., R.J. Murray, editors. Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems. <em>Proceedings of the Second Deep-Sea Coral Symposium.</em> 279-296. [details]
[request]basis of record Watling, L.; Auster, P. (2005). Distribution of deep-water Alcyonacea off the Northeast Coast of the United States. In: Freiwald, A., R.J. Murray, editors. Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems. <em>Proceedings of the Second Deep-Sea Coral Symposium.</em> 279-296. [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source van Ofwegen, L.P., S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds). (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source van Ofwegen, L.P., S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds). (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Corallium medea)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (21 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (Holotype USNM 52512)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Corallium medea)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (21 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (Holotype USNM 52512)
