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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaryophyllia (Caryophyllia) ambrosia caribbeana Cairns, 1979 
AphiaID: 286726

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCnidaria (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnthozoa (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHexacorallia (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorScleractinia (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaryophylliidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaryophyllia (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaryophyllia (Caryophyllia) (Subgenus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaryophyllia (Caryophyllia) ambrosia (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Subspecies
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaryophyllia (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]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorhorn coralUnreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorCaribbean horn coral  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution 
From other sources
Gulf of Mexico
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Mexico [details]
North Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth West Atlantic [details]
(no group)
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorWest Central Atlantic [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Notes 
From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorBiology azooxanthellate [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDepth range 183-1646 m [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorHabitat slope [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorHabitat 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 2014-03-12
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