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Endopsammia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 
AphiaID: 267412

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Dendrophylliidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Endopsammia philippensis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 (type by monotypy)
Parent Dendrophylliidae Gray, 1847
Sources  basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2009. Stylasteridae, Scleractinia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A. F. Budd, B. Lathuiliere, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski, and K. G. Johnson (2010). Corallosphere, available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 2001. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Smith. Cont. Zool. 615: 75 pp., 14 pls., 3 figs.  [details]

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 Species Endopsammia philippensis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
Species Endopsammia pourtalesi (Durham & Barnard, 1952)
Species Endopsammia regularis (Gardiner, 1899)

Species Endopsammia poculum Alcock, 1902 accepted as Leptopsammia poculum (Alcock, 1902)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 0-62 m [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267412
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-14 11:18:07Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-08-31 13:08:08Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
2010-09-07 13:48:11Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Endopsammia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267412 on 2013-05-20
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