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Oxysmilia epithecata Cairns, 1999 
AphiaID: 290564

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family) > Oxysmilia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (transferred by Kitahara and Cairns 2005)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Monohedotrochus epithecatus (Cairns, 1999)
Rank Species
Parent Oxysmilia Duchassaing, 1870
Sources  original description: Cairns, S.D., 1999. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-Water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Mem. Mus. natl. Hist. nat., Paris, 180: 31-167. [details]

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]

Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Central Pacific Ocean [details]
West Pacific [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Note  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290564
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-07-29 20:04:23Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Oxysmilia epithecata Cairns, 1999. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290564 on 2013-06-19
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