WoRMS taxon details
Leptogorgia virgulata (Lamarck, 1815)
AphiaID: 158288
AphiaID: 158288
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Holaxonia (Suborder) > Gorgoniidae (Family) > Leptogorgia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Leptogorgia Milne-Edwards, 1857 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [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] additional source: L.P. van Ofwegen, S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds), 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., and F.M. Bayer, 2009. Octocorallia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 321–331 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Enalcyonium scorpio Stock, 1973 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
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| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (44 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 6 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Distribution: Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158288 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Leptogorgia virgulata (Lamarck, 1815). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158288 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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