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Echinomuricea Verrill, 1869 
AphiaID: 177740

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Holaxonia (Suborder) > Plexauridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Plexauridae Gray, 1859
Sources  basis of record: 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]

basis of record: Williams, G.C. (1992). Biogeography of the octocorallian coelenterate fauna of southern Africa. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 46:351-401. [details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Echinomuricea andamanensis Thomson & Simpson, 1909
Species Echinomuricea bicornis Hickson, 1930
Species Echinomuricea borealis (Johnson, 1862)
Species Echinomuricea coccinea (Stimpson, 1855)
Species Echinomuricea collaris Nutting, 1910
Species Echinomuricea coronalis Germanos, 1896
Species Echinomuricea costata Nutting, 1910
Species Echinomuricea cylindrica Nutting, 1910
Species Echinomuricea horrida (Hickson, 1905)
Species Echinomuricea indica Thomson & Simpson, 1909
Species Echinomuricea indomalaccensis Ridley, 1884
Species Echinomuricea magna (Nutting, 1910)
Species Echinomuricea muricelloides (Nutting, 1910)
Species Echinomuricea ochracea Thomson & Simpson, 1909
Species Echinomuricea parareticulata Stiasny, 1942
Species Echinomuricea peterseni Hedlund, 1890
Species Echinomuricea philippinensis Hedlund, 1889
Species Echinomuricea pulchra Nutting, 1910
Species Echinomuricea ramosa Tixier-Durivault, 1972
Species Echinomuricea reticulata Thomson & Simpson, 1909
Species Echinomuricea scolopendra Thomson, 1927
Species Echinomuricea spinifera Nutting, 1910
Species Echinomuricea spinosa (Hiles, 1899)
Species Echinomuricea splendens Thomson & Simpson, 1909
Species Echinomuricea stellata (Nutting, 1910)
Species Echinomuricea tenuis Thomson & Simpson
Species Echinomuricea uliginosa Thomson & Simpson, 1909

Species Echinomuricea atlantica (Johnson, 1862) accepted as Spinimuricea atlantica (Johnson, 1862)
Species Echinomuricea brunnea (Nutting, 1908) accepted as Bebryce brunnea (Nutting, 1908)
Species Echinomuricea klavereni Carpine & Grasshoff, 1975 accepted as Spinimuricea klavereni (Carpine & Grasshoff, 1975)
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177740
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-26 12:01:18Z  created  Espinel, Nadjejda
2006-09-11 06:44:08Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-09-17 06:17:46Z  checked  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Echinomuricea Verrill, 1869. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=177740 on 2013-05-24
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