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Anomocora Studer, 1877 
AphiaID: 135082

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Coelosmilia fecunda Pourtalès, 1871 (type by monotypy)
Parent Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846
Synonymised
taxa
  Coelosmilia
Sources  basis of record: Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema, and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A. F. Budd, B. Lathuiliere, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski, and K. G. Johnson (2010). Corallosphere, available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 2000. A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Stud. Nat. Hist. Carib. Reg. 75: 321 pp., 215 figs.  [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [details]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Anomocora carinata Cairns, 1991
Species Anomocora fecunda (Pourtalès, 1871)
Species Anomocora gigas (van der Horst, 1931)
Species Anomocora irregularis (Cairns, 1995)
Species Anomocora marchadi (Chevalier, 1966)
Species Anomocora prolifera (Pourtalès, 1871)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent + fossil
Link To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 30-786 m [details]

Fossil range: Eocene to Recent [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135082
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hoeksema, Bert
2006-07-31 06:57:06Z  changed  Camba Reu, Cibran
2010-09-09 02:46:30Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Anomocora Studer, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135082 on 2013-05-25
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