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Rhizopsammia minuta van der Horst, 1922 
AphiaID: 210738

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Dendrophylliidae (Family) > Rhizopsammia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Rhizopsammia Verrill, 1869
Sources  basis of record: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [details]

additional source: S.D.Cairns, B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land, update Oct. 2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2009. On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge http://www.lophelia.org/online-appendices  [details]

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taxa
[show all]		 Variety Rhizopsammia minuta var. bikiniensis Wells, 1954
Variety Rhizopsammia minuta var. mutsuensis Yabe & Eguchi, 1932
Environment marine, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Central Pacific Ocean [details]
Mozambique [details]
West Pacific [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 0-176 m [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210738
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2000-09-08 06:57:57Z  created  Govaerts, Ann
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  changed  van der Land, Jacob
2010-08-11 19:16:22Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
2010-12-04 14:10:32Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Rhizopsammia minuta van der Horst, 1922. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210738 on 2013-05-24
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