WoRMS taxon details
Pleotrochus venustus (Alcock, 1902)
AphiaID: 290776
AphiaID: 290776
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Turbinoliidae (Family) > Pleotrochus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Pleotrochus Cairns, 1997 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ceratotrochus venustus Alcock, 1902 Cryptotrochus venustus (Alcock, 1902) | ||||||||||
| 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] additional source: 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] redescription (from synonym): Cairns, S.D., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [details] [view taxon] redescription (from synonym): 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] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Central Pacific Ocean [details] West Pacific [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 200-397 m [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290776 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Pleotrochus venustus (Alcock, 1902). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290776 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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