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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBalanophyllia (Balanophyllia) europaea (Risso, 1826) 
AphiaID: 135180

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 editorDendrophylliidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBalanophyllia (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBalanophyllia (Balanophyllia) (Subgenus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBalanophyllia (Balanophyllia) europaea (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBalanophyllia (Balanophyllia) Wood, 1844
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaryophyllia europaea Risso, 1826
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaryophyllia europaea Risso, 1826
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDesmophyllum stellaria Ehrenberg, 1834
Sources 
redescription Zibrowius, H. (1980). Les scléractiniaires de la Méditerranée et de l'Atlantique nord-oriental. Mémoires de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco, 11. Musée océanographique de Monaco: Monaco. 3 volumes, including bibliography and taxonomic index pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 183 [details]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorscarlet coralUnreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorpig-tooth coral  [details]
French Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editordent de cochon  [details]
German Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorWarzenkoralle  [details]
Italian Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editormedrepora solitaria  [details]
Spanish Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editormadrépora solitaria  [details]
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution 
From other sources
Mediterranean Sea
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMediterranean Sea [details]
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGreek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEast North Atlantic [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEuropean waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo PESI 
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (117 records) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Notes 
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBiology zooxanthellate [details]

From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDepth range 0-50 m [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorHabitat shelf [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135180
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hoeksema, Bert
  
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  Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2004). Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) europaea. 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=135180 on 2017-08-19
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