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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeterocyathus japonicus (Verrill, 1866) 
AphiaID: 288864

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 editorHeterocyathus (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeterocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
Synonymised
taxa		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeterocyathus mai Cheng, 1971
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStephanoseris japonicus Verrill, 1865
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]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorstriped bum coral  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution 
From other sources
North Pacific Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorWest North Pacific [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection 
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 0-20 m [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:288864
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-08-20 12:17:25Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Heterocyathus japonicus (Verrill, 1866). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=288864 on 2013-12-21
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