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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora Moseley, 1879 
AphiaID: 174816

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCnidaria (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHydrozoa (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHydroidolina (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnthoathecata (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorFilifera (Suborder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStylasteridae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora tenuis Moseley, 1879 (type by monotypy)
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStylasteridae Gray, 1847
Sources 
redescription Cairns, S.D., 1983. A generic revision of the Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 1. Description of the genera. Bull. mar. Sci. 33 2: 427-508. [details]

redescription Cairns, S.D., 1983. Antarctic and subantarctic Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). In: Biology of the Antarctic Seas, XIII. Antarct. Res. Ser. 38 2: 61-164. [details]

redescription Cairns, S.D., 1991. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydroida). Mem. N.Z. oceanogr. Inst. 98 : 1-99. [details]

redescription Cairns, S.D., 1987. Conopora adeta, new species (Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from Australia, the first known unattached stylasterid. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100(1): 141-146. [details]

identification resource Cairns, S.D., 1992. A generic revision of the Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 3. Keys to the genera. Bull Mar. Sci. 49(1-2): 538-545.  [details]

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taxa (16)
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[sort alpha..]		 Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora adeta Cairns, 1987
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora anthohelia Cairns, 1991
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora arborescens Nielsen, 1919 †
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora candelabrum Cairns, 1991
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora dura Hickson & England, 1909
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora gigantea Cairns, 1991
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora laevis (Studer, 1878)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora mariae Stolarski, 1998 †
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora sola Cairns & Zibrowius, 2013
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora tenuiramus Cairns & Zibrowius, 2013
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora tetrastichopora Cairns, 1991
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora unifacialis Cairns, 1991
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora verrucosa (Studer, 1878)

Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora major Hickson & England, 1905 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora verrucosa (Studer, 1878)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora pauciseptata Broch, 1950 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora verrucosa (Studer, 1878)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora tenuis Moseley, 1879 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConopora laevis (Studer, 1878)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent + fossil
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank  
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Notes 
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDepth range 110-2355 m [details]

Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorFossil range ?Paleocene to Recent [details]

From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorHabitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:174816
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-14 09:00:06Z  created  Claus, Simon
2006-09-08 06:50:23Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-11-21 17:12:16Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2014). Conopora Moseley, 1879. In: Schuchert, P. (2014) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=174816 on 2015-01-27
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