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Muricella Verrill, 1868 
AphiaID: 267602

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Holaxonia (Suborder) > Acanthogorgiidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Acanthogorgiidae Gray, 1859
Source  basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Muricella abnormalis Nutting, 1912
Species Muricella argentea (Nutting, 1910)
Species Muricella aruensis Kükenthal, 1919
Species Muricella bengalensis Thomson & Henderson, 1906
Species Muricella brunnea Kükenthal, 1924
Species Muricella complanata Wright & Studer, 1889
Species Muricella crassa Wright & Studer, 1889
Species Muricella decipiens Kükenthal, 1924
Species Muricella dentata (Nutting, 1910)
Species Muricella dubia Nutting, 1910
Species Muricella englemani Bayer, 1949
Species Muricella erythraea Kükenthal, 1913
Species Muricella exilis Tixier-Durivault, 1972
Species Muricella flexilis Hiles, 1899
Species Muricella flexuosa (Verrill, 1865)
Species Muricella gracilis Wright & Studer, 1889
Species Muricella grandis Nutting, 1910
Species Muricella magna Utinomi, 1961
Species Muricella megaspina Hargitt & Rogers, 1901
Species Muricella nitida (Verrill, 1868)
Species Muricella operculata (Nutting, 1910)
Species Muricella paraplectana Grasshoff, 1999
Species Muricella perramosa Ridley, 1882
Species Muricella plectana Grasshoff, 1999
Species Muricella ramosa Thomson & Henderson, 1905
Species Muricella reticulata (Nutting, 1910)
Species Muricella robusta Thomson & Simpson, 1909
Species Muricella rosea (Nutting, 1910)
Species Muricella rubra Thomson, 1905
Species Muricella sayad Grasshoff, 2000
Species Muricella stellata Nutting, 1910
Species Muricella tenera Ridley, 1884
Species Muricella tuberculata (Esper, 1791)
Species Muricella umbraticoides (Studer, 1878)
Species Muricella vasseuri Tixier-Durivault, 1972

Species Muricella arborea (Thomson & Simpson, 1909) accepted as Astrogorgia arborea (Thomson & Simpson, 1909)
Species Muricella purpurea (Whitelegge, 1897) accepted as Acanthomuricea purpurea (Whitelegge, 1897)
Environment marine
Host of  Enalcyonium circulatum Kim I.H., 2007 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Link To GenBank
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267602
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-14 11:18:07Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-09-15 12:49:54Z  changed  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Muricella Verrill, 1868. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267602 on 2013-05-23
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