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Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) ambrosia caribbeana Cairns, 1979 
AphiaID: 286726

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  original description: Cairns, S.D., 1979. The deep-water Scleractinia of the Caribbean and adjacent waters. Stud. Fauna Curacao, 57 (180): 341 pp. [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., W.C. Jaap, and J.C. Lang. 2009. Scleractinia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 333–347 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [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: Reyes, J., N. Santodomingo and S.D. Cairns, 2009. Caryophylliidae (Scleractinia) from the Colombian Caribbean. Zootaxa 2262: 1-39, including 4 pls.  [details]

context source (Deepsea): Cairns, Stephen (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Caribbean horn coral  [details]
English horn coral  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
West Central Atlantic [details]
Links To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 183-1646 m [details]

Habitat: slope [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:286726
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-08-15 15:41:46Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) ambrosia caribbeana Cairns, 1979. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=286726 on 2013-05-26
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