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Echinogorgia Kölliker, 1865 
AphiaID: 267402

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

additional source: Williams, G.; Sánchez, J. (2009). Octocorallia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Echinogorgia abietina Kükenthal, 1919
Species Echinogorgia armata (Kükenthal, 1909)
Species Echinogorgia aurantiaca (Valenciennes, 1855)
Species Echinogorgia cerea (Esper, 1791)
Species Echinogorgia complexa Nutting, 1910
Species Echinogorgia flabellum (Esper, 1791)
Species Echinogorgia flexilis Thomson & Simpson, 1909
Species Echinogorgia flora Nutting, 1910
Species Echinogorgia furfuracea (Esper, 1791)
Species Echinogorgia gracillima Kükenthal, 1919
Species Echinogorgia granifera (Lamarck, 1816)
Species Echinogorgia humilis (Nutting, 1910)
Species Echinogorgia japonica Aurivillius, 1931
Species Echinogorgia lami Stiasny, 1940
Species Echinogorgia macrospiculata Thomson & Simpson, 1909
Species Echinogorgia mertoni Kükenthal, 1919
Species Echinogorgia modesta Studer, 1889
Species Echinogorgia multispinosa Thomson & Henderson, 1905
Species Echinogorgia noumea Grasshoff, 1999
Species Echinogorgia pinnata Studer, 1878
Species Echinogorgia pseudosassapo Kölliker, 1865
Species Echinogorgia ramosa Thomson & Russell, 1909
Species Echinogorgia ramulosa (Gray, 1870)
Species Echinogorgia rebekka Grasshoff, 2000
Species Echinogorgia reticulata (Esper, 1791)
Species Echinogorgia ridleyi Nutting, 1910
Species Echinogorgia russelli Bayer, 1949
Species Echinogorgia sanguinea (Nutting, 1910)
Species Echinogorgia sassapo (Esper, 1791)
Species Echinogorgia simplex (Nutting, 1910)
Species Echinogorgia sphaerophora Kükenthal, 1919
Species Echinogorgia spinosa (Kükenthal, 1908)
Species Echinogorgia studeri (Kükenthal, 1908)
Species Echinogorgia toombo Grasshoff, 1999
Species Echinogorgia umbratica (Esper, 1791)
Species Echinogorgia verrucosa (Brundin, 1896)

Species Echinogorgia asper (Moroff, 1902) accepted as Paraplexaura asper (Moroff, 1902)
Environment marine
Link To GenBank
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267402
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-14 11:18:07Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-09-14 07:16:49Z  changed  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Echinogorgia Kölliker, 1865. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267402 on 2013-05-19
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