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Gorgonia flabellum Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 290029

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Holaxonia (Suborder) > Gorgoniidae (Family) > Gorgonia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Gorgonia Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English venus sea fan  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (134 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290029
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-09-17 06:17:46Z  checked  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Gorgonia flabellum Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290029 on 2013-05-19
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