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Melithaeidae Gray, 1870 
AphiaID: 196230

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Scleraxonia (Suborder)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Scleraxonia
Synonymised
taxa
  Melitodidae (synonym)
Source  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Direct child
taxa

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 Genus Acabaria Gray, 1859
Genus Asperaxis Alderslade, 2007
Genus Clathraria Gray, 1859
Genus Melithaea Milne-Edwards, 1857
Genus Mopsella Gray, 1857
Genus Pleurocoralloides Moroff, 1902
Genus Wrightella Gray, 1870

Genus Melitodes accepted as Melithaea Milne-Edwards, 1857
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196230
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-12-30 14:07:12Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-09-15 12:49:54Z  changed  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Melithaeidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196230 on 2013-06-19
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