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Hexacorallians of the world

Citation

Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. https://doi.org/10.15468/90drpi accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-07-07.

Description

Catalogue of Hexacorallians species, bibliography of literature in which they were described, inventory of type specimens, distribution maps, and images. This is a legacy dataset form the CoML. No eventDate. Many unmatched scientifiName due to changes in the taxonomy of hexacoralians

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1340
  1. Hexacorallia
    rank: subclass

Geographic Coverages

World Waters - http://marineregions.org/mrgid/1901

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Carolina Peralta
originator
position: Professor
Universidad Simón Bolívar
OBIS Secretariat
metadata author
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
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email: info@iobis.org
homepage: http://www.iobis.org
Daphne G. Fautin
custodian steward
University of Kansas; Division of Invertebrate Zoology; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, KU Natural History Museum
US
email: fautin@ku.edu
Daphne G. Fautin
administrative point of contact
University of Kansas; Division of Invertebrate Zoology; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, KU Natural History Museum
US
email: fautin@ku.edu
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