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Heterogorgia Verrill, 1868 
AphiaID: 267483

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Holaxonia (Suborder) > Plexauridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Plexauridae Gray, 1859
Source  basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

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 Species Heterogorgia clausa Nutting, 1910
Species Heterogorgia flabellum (Pallas, 1766)
Species Heterogorgia grandicalyx Kükenthal, 1924
Species Heterogorgia hickmani Breedy & Guzman, 2005
Species Heterogorgia humilis Nutting, 1910
Species Heterogorgia muricelloides Nutting, 1910
Species Heterogorgia operculata Nutting, 1910
Species Heterogorgia pacifica
Species Heterogorgia papillosa Verrill, 1870
Species Heterogorgia ramosa (Thomson & Henderson, 1905)
Species Heterogorgia reticulata Nutting, 1910
Species Heterogorgia stellata Nutting, 1910
Species Heterogorgia stellifera (Thomson & Crane, 1909)
Species Heterogorgia tortuosa Verrill, 1868
Species Heterogorgia uatumani Barreira e Castro, 1990
Species Heterogorgia verrilli Thomson & Henderson, 1905
Species Heterogorgia verrucosa Verrill, 1868

Species Heterogorgia magna Nutting, 1910 accepted as Echinomuricea magna (Nutting, 1910)
Species Heterogorgia polyklados Germanos, 1896 accepted as Astromuricea polyklados Germanos, 1896
Species Heterogorgia theophilasi Germanos, 1896 accepted as Astromuricea theophilasi Germanos, 1896
Environment marine
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267483
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-14 11:18:07Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-09-15 12:49:54Z  changed  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Heterogorgia Verrill, 1868. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267483 on 2013-05-20
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