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Colangia moseleyi (Faustino, 1927) 
AphiaID: 289693

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family) > Colangia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Colangia Pourtalès, 1871
Synonymised
taxa
  Cladocora conferta Moseley, 1881 (junior secondary homonym)
Cladocora moseleyi 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]

new combination reference: Cairns, S.D., and Zibrowius, H., 1997. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian regions. Mem. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. 172: 27-243, including 29 pls. (=MUSORSTOM Rep. 16).  [details]

basis of record (from synonym): Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Central Pacific Ocean [details]
West Pacific [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 18-54 m [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:289693
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-08-21 12:24:10Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Colangia moseleyi (Faustino, 1927). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=289693 on 2013-06-19
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