WoRMS taxon details
Plexaura flexuosa Lamouroux, 1821
AphiaID: 367817
AphiaID: 367817
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Holaxonia (Suborder) > Plexauridae (Family) > Plexaura (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Plexaura Lamouroux, 1812 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Bermuda [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Acanthomolgus affinis Stock, 1975 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Acanthomolgus longidactylus Stock, 1975 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (40 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (278 nucleotides; 135 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:367817 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Plexaura flexuosa Lamouroux, 1821. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367817 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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