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Colangia Pourtalès, 1871 
AphiaID: 267333

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Colangia immersa Pourtalès, 1871 (type by monotypy)
Parent Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846
Sources  basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[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]

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 Species Colangia immersa Pourtalès, 1871
Species Colangia jamaicaensis Cairns, 2000
Species Colangia moseleyi (Faustino, 1927)
Species Colangia multipalifera Cairns, 2000

Species Colangia simplex Pourtalès, 1878 accepted as Gardineria simplex (Pourtalès, 1878)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 1-347 m [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267333
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-14 11:18:07Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-08-21 12:24:10Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
2010-09-08 12:59:53Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Colangia Pourtalès, 1871. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267333 on 2013-05-21
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