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Acrophytum Hickson, 1900 
AphiaID: 205307

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Alcyoniina (Suborder) > Alcyoniidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Alcyoniidae Lamouroux, 1812
Synonymised
taxa		  Acrophyton (misspelling)
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]

from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Acrophytum claviger Hickson, 1900
Link To GenBank
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205307
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 10:51:58Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-09-17 06:17:46Z  checked  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Acrophytum Hickson, 1900. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205307 on 2013-05-18
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