Traits taxon details
original description
(of ) Lamouroux JVF. (1821). Exposition méthodique des genres de l'ordre des polypiers: avec leur description et celle des principales espèces, figurées dans 84 planches, les 63 premières appartenant à l'Histoire naturelle des zoophytes d'Ellis et Solander. <em>Paris 1821.</em> pp. 1-115, pls. 1-84., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50899961 page(s): 55 [details] 
original description
(of Eunicea hicksoni Stiasny, 1935) Stiasny, G. (1935). Über <em>Plexauropsis humilis</em> (Milne Edw.) und <em>Eunicea hicksoni</em> nov. spec. (Gorgonaria, Plexauridae). <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 112, 107-116. [details] Available for editors 
original description
(of Plexaura flexuosula Kükenthal, 1924) Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp. page(s): 113 [details] Available for editors 
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Sánchez, J. A.; Wirshing, H. H. (2005). A field key to the identification of tropical western Atlantic zooxanthellate octocorals (Octocorallia: Cnidaria). Caribbean Journal of Science, 41(3): 508-522 page(s): 516, 517, 518 [details]
additional source
Sarmiento, A.; Calixto-Botía, I.; Julio-Rodríguez, T.; Quattrini, A. M.; Sánchez, J. A. (2025). Uncovering the Evolutionary History in Lineage of Caribbean Octocorals: Phylogenomics Reveals Unrecognized Diversity in Eunicea. <em>Diversity.</em> 17(3): 173., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/3/173 [details] Available for editors 
new combination reference
Grajales V.A., Aguilar C., Sánchez J. (2007). Phylogenetic reconstruction using secondary structures of Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS2, rDNA): finding the molecular and morphological gap in Caribbean gorgonian corals. <em>BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 90.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-90 page(s): 3 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 1191382 Plexaura flexuosa 2)
Hosted externally
To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 1191382 Plexaura flexuosa)
Hosted externally
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