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Acanthomuricea Hentschel, 1903 
AphiaID: 204750

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: 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 Acanthomuricea biserialis Hentschel, 1903
Species Acanthomuricea dina Grasshoff, 2000
Species Acanthomuricea mberea Grasshoff, 1999
Species Acanthomuricea pulchra (J.S. Thomson, 1911)
Species Acanthomuricea purpurea (Whitelegge, 1897)
Species Acanthomuricea silpa Grasshoff, 2000
Species Acanthomuricea uimea Grasshoff, 1999
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204750
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1998-11-19 14:34:27Z  created  Fondo, Esther
2004-01-09 17:30:58Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-09-04 06:53:11Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2006-12-18 14:33:13Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-09-17 06:17:46Z  checked  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Acanthomuricea Hentschel, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204750 on 2013-05-18
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