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Plexaurella nutans (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860)

290819  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290819)

accepted
Species
Plexaurella fusifera Kunze, 1916 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Plexaurella kunzei Kükenthal, 1924 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1860). M�moire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>M�moires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin, s�ries 2.</em> 19: 279-365, pls 1-10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12140332
page(s): 300-301 [details] OpenAccess publication
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Plexaurella nutans (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860). Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290819 on 2025-09-11
Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Plexaurella nutans (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290819 on 2025-09-11
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2008-01-16 10:35:54Z
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2010-09-17 06:17:46Z
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original description (of Plexaurella kunzei Kükenthal, 1924) K�kenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 102 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

original description (of Plexaurella fusifera Kunze, 1916) Kunze, G. (1916). Die Gorgonarien Westindiens. Kap. 5. Die Gattung Plexaurella. <em>Zoologische Jahrb�cher Supplement.</em> 11(4): 553-586, plates 27-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14178910
page(s): 563-565 [details] 

original description (of ) Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1860). M�moire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>M�moires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin, s�ries 2.</em> 19: 279-365, pls 1-10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12140332
page(s): 300-301 [details] OpenAccess publication

context source (Bermuda) Sterrer, W. (1986). Marine fauna and flora of Bermuda: a systematic guide to the identification of marine organisms. <em>Wiley-Interscience Publication. Wiley.</em> 742 pp (Nemertini part). [details] Available for editors  PDF available

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

basis of record van Ofwegen, L.P., 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] 

additional source Cairns, S.D., and Bayer, F.M., 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] 

additional source K�kenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 106 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Bayer, F.M. (1961). The shallow-water Octocorallia of the West Indian region. A manual for marine biologists. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and Other Caribbean Islands.</em> 12:1-373, pls. 1-23., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506065
page(s): 5, 168, 172-173, 179, 325, 329, 330, 333, Pl. XIII [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Bayer, F.M. (1957). Additional records of Western Atlantic octocorals. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 47(11): 379-390., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39753773
page(s): 389-390 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Wirshing, H. H.; Messing, C. G.; Douady, C. J.; Reed, J. K.; Stanhope, M. J. (2005). Molecular evidence for multiple lineages in the gorgonian family Plexauridae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia). Marine Biology, 147, 497-508
page(s): 500, 503, 505, 506 [details] 

additional source S�nchez, 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): 510, 513, 518 [details] 
 
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