WoRMS taxon details
Metallogorgia melanotrichos (Wright & Studer, 1889)
AphiaID: 125355
AphiaID: 125355
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Calcaxonia (Suborder) > Chrysogorgiidae (Family) > Metallogorgia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Metallogorgia Versluys, 1902 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Chrysogorgia squarrosa (Wright & Studer, 1889) (synonym) | |||||||
| 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] from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Central Indo-Pacific [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North West Atlantic (not certain) [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] South Atlantic [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||
| Links | To Antarctic Invertebrates To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (37 nucleotides; 53 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||
| Notes |
Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Habitat: bathyal [details] | |||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125355 | |||||||
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| Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Metallogorgia melanotrichos (Wright & Studer, 1889). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125355 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||
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