Erythropodium caribaeorum (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860)

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

SPECIES

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Cnidaria

class

Anthozoa

order

Scleralcyonacea

family

Erythropodiidae

genus

Erythropodium

species

Erythropodium caribaeorum

Name

Synonyms

Erythropodium carybaeorum Kölliker, 1865

Massarella vera (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)

Sympodium verum Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864

Xaenia caribaeorum Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860

Xenia caribaeorum Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860

Homonyms

Erythropodium caribaeorum (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860)

Common names

Encrusting gorgonian in language.

encrusting gorgonian in English

Encrusting Gorgonian in English

Bibliographic References

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2. Cairns, Stephen D., Dale R. Calder, Anita Brinckmann-Voss, Clovis B. Castro, Daphne G. Fautin,..., 2002: Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophora, Second Edition, 2002. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 28. xi + 115.
3. Deichmann, E. (1936). The Alcyonaria of the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College.</em> 53: 1-317, plates 1-37.
4. Deichmann, E. (1941). Coelenterates collected on the presidential cruise of 1938. <em>Smithsonian miscellaneous collections.</em> 99(10): 1–17.
5. Fabricius, K.; Alderslade, P. N. (2001). Soft Corals and Sea Fans: A Comprehensive Guide to the Shallow-water Genera of the Central-West Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., pp. 264.
6. Kükenthal, W. (1916). Die Gorgonarien Westindiens. Kap. 1, Die Scleraxonier; Kap. 2, Über den Venusfächer; Kap. 3, Die Gattung Xiphigorgia. <em>Zoologische Jahrbucher.</em> Suppl. 11: 443-504, plate 23.
7. 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
8. 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
9. Zeevi Ben-Yosef, D.; Benayahu, Y. (1999). The gorgonian coral Acabaria biserialis: life history of a successful colonizer of artificial substrata. Marine Biology, 135, 473-481
10. van Ofwegen, L.P.; Cairns, S.D. ; van der Land, J. (eds). (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms.