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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVaughanella Gravier, 1915 
AphiaID: 135106

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCnidaria (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnthozoa (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHexacorallia (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorScleractinia (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaryophylliidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVaughanella (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaryophyllia (Caryophyllia) margaritata Jourdan, 1895 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVaughanella margaritata (Jourdan, 1895) (type by original designation)
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaryophylliidae Dana, 1846
Sources  original description Gravier, C. (1915). Note préliminaire sur les Madréporaires recueilles au cours des croisières de la Princesse-Alice et de l’Hirondelle II, de inclusivement. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco. 304: 1-22. [details]

redescription Cairns, S.D., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [details]

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[sort alpha..]		 Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVaughanella concinna Gravier, 1915
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVaughanella margaritata (Jourdan, 1895)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVaughanella multipalifera Cairns, 1995
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVaughanella oreophila Keller, 1981
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank  
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Notes 
From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorBiology azooxanthellate [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDepth range 500-3500 m [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135106
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hoeksema, Bert
2006-09-29 11:38:53Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-09-09 20:29:02Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
2016-02-04 11:51:15Z  changed  Hoeksema, Bert
  
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  Citation: Hoeksema, B.; Cairns, S. (2016). Vaughanella Gravier, 1915. In: Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135106 on 2017-06-24
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