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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) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeterocyathus japonicus (Species)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted (synonym)
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeterocyathus aequicostatus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeterocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStephanoseris japonicus Verrill, 1866
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStephanoseris japonicus Verrill, 1866 (original combination, basionym)
Sources  original description Verrill, A. E. (1866). Synopsis of the polyps and corals of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, under Commodore C. Ringgold and Captain John Rogers, U.S.N., from 1853 to 1856. Collected by Dr. Wm. Stimpson, naturalist to the expedition. With descriptions of some additional species from the west coast of North America. Pt. 3: Madreporaria. Proceedings of the Essex Institute, 5(3): 17-50, plates 1-2., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103663#page/255/mode/1up [details]

source of synonymy Hoeksema BW, Best MB (1991) New observations on scleractinian corals from Indonesia: 2. Sipunculan-associated species belonging to the genera Heterocyathus and Heteropsammia. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 65: 221-245. [details]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorstriped bum coral  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, 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 (5 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (14 records) 
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (2 records) 
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
2014-06-25 15:14:10Z  changed  Hoeksema, Bert
2014-06-29 12:10:12Z  changed  Hoeksema, Bert
  
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  Citation: Hoeksema, B.; Cairns, S. (2014). Heterocyathus japonicus (Verrill, 1866). In: Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=288864 on 2017-05-29
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