WoRMS taxon details
Briareum asbestinum (Pallas, 1766)
AphiaID: 289534
AphiaID: 289534
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Scleraxonia (Suborder) > Briareidae (Family) > Briareum (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Briareum Blainville, 1834 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Briareum gorgonoideum Blainville, 1830 (synonym) Briareum polyanthes (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: L.P. van Ofwegen, S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds), 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., and F.M. Bayer, 2009. Octocorallia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 321–331 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Bermuda [details] Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Enalcyonium variicauda Stock, 1973 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Enalcyonium variicauda Stock, 1973 (parasitic: endoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (43 nucleotides; 33 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:289534 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Briareum asbestinum (Pallas, 1766). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=289534 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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