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Antillogorgia acerosa (Pallas, 1766) 
AphiaID: 367982

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Holaxonia (Suborder) > Gorgoniidae (Family) > Antillogorgia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Antillogorgia Bayer, 1951
Synonymised
taxa
  Pseudopterogorgia acerosa (Pallas, 1766)
Sources  basis of record: UNEP-WCMC Species Database, available online at http://www.unep-wcmc.org/isdb/Taxonomy [details]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English smooth sea feather (from synonym)  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Bermuda [details]
Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Host of  Acanthomolgus bilobipes Humes & Stock, 1973 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:367982
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-10-02 05:36:12Z  created  Decock, Wim
2012-10-15 08:06:54Z  checked  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Antillogorgia acerosa (Pallas, 1766). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367982 on 2013-05-23
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