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Swiftia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 
AphiaID: 125314

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Holaxonia (Suborder) > Plexauridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Plexauridae Gray, 1859
Sources  basis of record: van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), 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. 104-105 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Williams, G.; Sánchez, J. (2009). Octocorallia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Swiftia africana (Kükenthal, 1919)
Species Swiftia borealis (Kramp, 1930)
Species Swiftia casta (Verrill, 1883)
Species Swiftia dubia (Thomson, 1929)
Species Swiftia exserta (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
Species Swiftia kofoidi (Nutting, 1909)
Species Swiftia koreni (Studer, 1889)
Species Swiftia miniata (Valenciennes, 1855)
Species Swiftia pallida Madsen, 1970
Species Swiftia pourtalesii Deichmann, 1936
Species Swiftia rosea (Grieg, 1887)
Species Swiftia sibogae (Nutting, 1910)
Species Swiftia spauldingi (Nutting, 1909)
Species Swiftia studeri (Nutting, 1910)

Species Swiftia beringi (Nutting, 1912) accepted as Calcigorgia beringi (Nutting, 1912)
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Image 
Swiftia
Swiftia
added on 2011-07-15 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125314
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Ofwegen, Leen
2010-09-16 09:11:12Z  changed  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Swiftia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125314 on 2013-05-20
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