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Echinoptilum Hubrecht, 1885 
AphiaID: 204819

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Pennatulacea (Order) > Echinoptilidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Echinoptilidae
Sources  basis of record: Williams, G.C. (1992). Biogeography of the octocorallian coelenterate fauna of southern Africa. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 46:351-401. [details]

additional source: Williams, G.C. Index Pennatulacea : Annotated bibliography and indexes of the sea pens of the world 1469-2002 (Coelenterata: Octocorallia), available online at http://research.calacademy.org/RESEARCH/izg/index_intro.htm [details]

additional source: Williams, G.; Sánchez, J. (2009). Octocorallia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

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

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Echinoptilum asperum Hickson, 1916
Species Echinoptilum echinatum (Kükenthal, 1910)
Species Echinoptilum elongatum Hickson, 1916
Species Echinoptilum macintoshi Hubrecht, 1885
Species Echinoptilum macintoshii Hubrecht, 1885
Species Echinoptilum minimum Hickson, 1916
Species Echinoptilum roseum Hickson, 1916
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204819
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1998-12-04 23:00:00Z  created  Fondo, Esther
2000-10-11 08:25:22Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-09-11 06:44:08Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-09-17 06:17:46Z  checked  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Echinoptilum Hubrecht, 1885. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204819 on 2013-06-20
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