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Heteropsammia eupsammides (Gray, 1849) 
AphiaID: 288393

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Dendrophylliidae (Family) > Heteropsammia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Heteropsammia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848
Synonymised
taxa
  Heterocyathus eupsammides Gray, 1849
Heteropsammia geminata Verrill, 1870
Heteropsammia multilobata Moseley, 1881
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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English smooth bum coral  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Indo-West Pacific [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To IUCN Red List
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: solitary or small colonies; zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 1-38 m [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:288393
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-09-01 00:45:09Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Heteropsammia eupsammides (Gray, 1849). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=288393 on 2013-05-22
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