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Leiopathes Haime, 1849 
AphiaID: 103305

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Antipatharia (Order) > Leiopathidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Leiopathes glaberrima (Esper, 1788) (type by original designation)
Parent Leiopathidae Haeckel, 1896
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J.; Opresko, D.M. (2001). Antipatharia, 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. 109 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Opresko, D. (2009). Antipatharia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Leiopathes acanthophora Opresko, 1998
Species Leiopathes bullosa Opresko, 1998
Species Leiopathes expansa Johnson, 1899
Species Leiopathes glaberrima (Esper, 1788)
Species Leiopathes grimaldii Roule, 1902
Species Leiopathes montana Molodtsova, 2011
Species Leiopathes secunda Opresko, 1998
Species Leiopathes valdiviae (Pax, 1915)
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
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Image 
Black coral diversity
Black coral diversity
added on 2013-01-10 - author: Johnsen S, Frank TM, Haddock SHD, Widder EA, Messing CG
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103305
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2009-08-11 09:20:33Z  changed  db_admin
2011-12-14 08:23:37Z  changed  Molodtsova, Tina
  
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  Citation: Molodtsova, T. (2013). Leiopathes Haime, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103305 on 2013-05-20
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