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Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 125416

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Scleraxonia (Suborder) > Coralliidae (Family) > Corallium (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Corallium Cuvier, 1798
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 kuq  [details]
Bulgarian cherven korаl  [details]
Bulgarian Червен корал  [details]
Catalan corall vermell  [details]
Dutch bloedkoraal  [details]
English precious coral  [details]
English red coral  [details]
German Edelkoralle  [details]
Italian corallo rosso  [details]
Lithuanian raudonasis koralas  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Κόκκινο κοράλι  [details]
Polish koral czerwony  [details]
Russian красный коралл  [details]
Slovenian rdeča korala  [details]
Spanish coral rojo  [details]
Turkish kırmızı mercan  [details]
Ukrainian Корал червоний  [details]
Ukrainian Корал шляхетний  [details]
Ukrainian Червоний корал  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (399 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Species fact sheets
To GenBank (329 nucleotides; 209 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Images 
Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
added on 2005-12-22 - author: Thierry Perez
qualitystatus: checked by van Ofwegen, Leen on 2012-11-22 11:30:29

Corallium rubrum
Corallium rubrum
added on 2008-11-07 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked

Corallium rubrum
Corallium rubrum
added on 2010-02-17 - author: Collection VLIZ ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Corallium rubrum
Corallium rubrum
added on 2011-11-01 - author: Collection VLIZ
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125416
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). Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125416 on 2013-05-18
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