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Eunephthya Verrill, 1869 
AphiaID: 158269

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Alcyoniina (Suborder) > Nephtheidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Nephtheidae Gray, 1862
Sources  basis of record: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

additional source: McFadden, C.S. & L.P. van Ofwegen 2012. A revision of the soft coral genus, Eunephthya Verrill, 1869 (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Nephtheidae), with a description of four new species from South Africa. Zootaxa 3485: 1-25. [details]

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 Species Eunephthya celata McFadden & van Ofwegen, 2012
Species Eunephthya ericius McFadden & van Ofwegen, 2012
Species Eunephthya granulata McFadden & van Ofwegen, 2012
Species Eunephthya shirleyae McFadden & van Ofwegen, 2012
Species Eunephthya susanae (Williams, 1988)
Species Eunephthya thyrsoidea Verrill, 1869

Species Eunephthya rubiformis (Ehrenberg, 1834) accepted as Gersemia rubiformis (Ehrenberg, 1834)
Environment marine
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158269
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-25 10:44:50Z  created  Claus, Simon
2006-09-12 06:54:36Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-09-15 12:49:54Z  changed  van Ofwegen, Leen
2012-09-21 14:02:04Z  changed  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Eunephthya Verrill, 1869. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158269 on 2013-05-25
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