WoRMS taxon details
Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) ambrosia ambrosia Alcock, 1898
AphiaID: 286725
AphiaID: 286725
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family) > Caryophyllia (Genus) > Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) (Subgenus) > Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) ambrosia (Species) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Subspecies | ||||||||||
| Parent | Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) ambrosia Alcock, 1898 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Cairns, S.D., and N.B. Keller, 1993. New taxa and distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the tropical south-west Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 103(5): 213-292, 13 pls. [details] basis of record: S.D.Cairns, B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land, update Oct. 2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2009. On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge http://www.lophelia.org/online-appendices [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 1981. Marine flora and fauna of the northeastern United States. Scleractinia. NOAA Tech. Rept. NMFS Circ. 438: l4 pp., l6 figs. [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1994. Scleractinia of the Temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 557:150 pp., 42 plates, 3 figs. [details] context source (Deepsea): Cairns, Stephen (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Bermuda [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 311-1230 m [details] Distribution: semi-cosmopolitan [details] Habitat: slope [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:286725 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) ambrosia ambrosia Alcock, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=286725 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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