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Gorgonacea 
AphiaID: 1366

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass)
Authority Lamouroux, 1816
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Alcyonacea
Rank Order
Parent Octocorallia
Sources  basis of record: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Bayer, F.M. (1981). Key to the genera of Octocorallia exclusive of Pennatulacea (Coelenterata: Anthozoa), with diagnoses of new taxa Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 94(3): 902-947 (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch waaierkoralen  [details]
English gorgonians  [details]
English gorgonians, sea fans, and sea feathers  [details]
English horny corals  [details]
Swedish hornkoraller  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Suborder Holaxonia
Family Paramuriceidae Bayer, 1956

Family Gorgonellidae accepted as Ellisellidae Gray, 1859
Family Melitodidae accepted as Melithaeidae Gray, 1870
Environment marine
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1366
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2010-09-15 12:49:54Z  changed  van Ofwegen, Leen
2011-11-23 11:49:06Z  changed  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Gorgonacea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1366 on 2013-05-24
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