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Gyractis Boveri, 1893 
AphiaID: 267459

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Actiniaria (Order) > Nyantheae (Suborder) > Thenaria (Infraorder) > Endomyaria (Superfamily) > Actiniidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Actiniidae Rafinesque, 1815
Synonymised
taxa
  Actiniogeton Carlgren, 1938
Actinogeton Carlgren, 1938 (misspelling of Actiniogeton)
Sources  basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details] [view taxon]

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taxa

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 Species Gyractis sesere (Haddon & Shackleton, 1893)
Species Gyractis spenceri (Haddon & Duerden, 1896)

Species Gyractis excavata Boveri, 1893 accepted as Gyractis sesere (Haddon & Shackleton, 1893)
Species Gyractis stimpsoni (Verrill, 1871) accepted as Anthopleura stimpsonii Verrill, 1871
Environment marine
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267459
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-14 11:18:07Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2009-12-23 10:36:46Z  changed  Fautin, Daphne
  
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  Citation: Fautin, D. (2013). Gyractis Boveri, 1893. In: Fautin, Daphne G. 2011. Hexacorallians of the World. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267459 on 2013-05-26
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