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Paragorgia johnsoni Gray, 1862 
AphiaID: 125419

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Scleraxonia (Suborder) > Paragorgiidae (Family) > Paragorgia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Paragorgia Milne-Edwards, 1857
Synonymised
taxa		  Paragorgia boschmai Bayer, 1964 (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 Atlantic Ocean [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
Image 
Paragorgia johnsoni
Paragorgia johnsoni
added on 2011-07-15 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Vonda Wareham ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125419
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). Paragorgia johnsoni Gray, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125419 on 2013-05-24
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