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Helioporacea 
AphiaID: 266987

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass)
Authority Bock, 1938
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Order
Parent Octocorallia
Sources  basis of record: Daly, M., M.R. Brugler, P. Cartwright, A.G. Collins, M.N. Dawson, D.G. Fautin, S.C. France, C.S. McFadden, D.M. Opresko, E. Rodriquez, S.L. Romano, J.L. Stake. (2007). The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. Zootaxa (1668): 127-182, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01668p182.pdf [details]

basis of record: Bayer, F.M. (1981). Key to the genera of Octocorallia exclusive of Pennatulacea (Coelenterata: Anthozoa), with diagnoses of new taxa Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 94(3): 902-947 (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English blue corals  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Family Helioporidae Moseley, 1876
Family Lithotelestidae Bayer & Muzik, 1977
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:266987
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-10 07:31:11Z  created  Decock, Wim
2010-09-15 12:49:54Z  changed  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Helioporacea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=266987 on 2013-05-19
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