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Alcyonium palmatum Pallas, 1766 
AphiaID: 125334

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Alcyoniina (Suborder) > Alcyoniidae (Family) > Alcyonium (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Alcyonium Linnaeus, 1758
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: Watling, L., P. Auster (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. Proceedings of the Second Deep-Sea Coral Symposium, Erlangen, Germany, September 2003. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp 279-296. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Albanian korali i butë  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Kerkennah Islands [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of  Lamippella faurei Bouligand & Delamare Deboutteville, 1959 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lamippe aciculifera Zulueta, 1908 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lamippe proteus Claparède, 1867 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lamippe rubicunda (Olsson, 1869) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lamippella faurei Bouligand & Delamare Deboutteville, 1959 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (173 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Image 
Alcyonium palmatum
Alcyonium palmatum
added on 2008-11-07 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125334
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Alcyonium palmatum Pallas, 1766. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125334 on 2013-05-22
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