WoRMS taxon details
Oculina varicosa Lesueur, 1821
AphiaID: 287102
AphiaID: 287102
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Oculinidae (Family) > Oculina (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Oculina Lamarck, 1816 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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] ecology source: Roberts, J.M., A. Wheeler, A. Freiwald, and S.D. Cairns, 2009. Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 334 pp. [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Bermuda [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cuba [details] Puerto Rico [details] Venezuela [details] West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (62 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (299 nucleotides; 299 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate or azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 5-128 m [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:287102 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Oculina varicosa Lesueur, 1821. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=287102 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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