WoRMS taxon details
Acanthogorgia aspera Pourtales, 1867
AphiaID: 177735
AphiaID: 177735
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Holaxonia (Suborder) > Acanthogorgiidae (Family) > Acanthogorgia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Acanthogorgia Gray, 1857 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Watling, L., P. Auster (2005). Distribution of deep-water Alcyonacea off the Northeast Coast of the United States. In: Freiwald, A., R.J. Murray, editors. Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems. Proceedings of the Second Deep-Sea Coral Symposium, Erlangen, Germany, September 2003. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp 279-296. [details] additional source: L.P. van Ofwegen, 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 F.M. Bayer, 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] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Acanthomolgus astrictus Humes & Stock, 1973 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Thamnomolgus robustus Humes, 1969 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 3 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177735 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Acanthogorgia aspera Pourtales, 1867. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=177735 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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