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Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) paradoxus Alcock, 1898 
AphiaID: 216141

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family) > Caryophyllia (Genus) > Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) Lamarck, 1801
Sources  basis of record: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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]

context source (Deepsea): Cairns, Stephen (look up in IMIS) [details]

Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Indian Ocean [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 786 m [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216141
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-10-31 12:32:54Z  created  Fondo, Esther
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  changed  van der Land, Jacob
2010-08-14 21:56:08Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) paradoxus Alcock, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216141 on 2013-06-19
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