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Stephanocoenia intersepta (Lamarck, 1816) 
AphiaID: 291119

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Astrocoeniidae (Family) > Stephanocoenia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Added by Database Management Team
Rank Species
Parent Stephanocoenia
Synonymised
taxa
  Stephanocoenia michelini Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848 (synonym)
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., W.C. Jaap, and J.C. Lang. 2009. Scleractinia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 333–347 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]

from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English blushing star coral  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Aruba [details]
Atlantic [details]
Belize [details]
Bermuda [details]
Bonaire [details]
Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Cayman Islands [details]
Colombia [details]
Costa Rica [details]
Cuba [details]
Curaçao [details]
Guatemala [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Hispaniola [details]
Honduras [details]
Jamaica [details]
Mexico [details]
Panama [details]
Puerto Rico [details]
Venezuela [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To IUCN Red List
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Note  Biology: zooxanthellate [details]
Image 
Stephanocoenia intersepta
Stephanocoenia intersepta
added on 2008-12-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:291119
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Stephanocoenia intersepta (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=291119 on 2013-05-25
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