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original description(of)Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1833). Zoologie IV: Zoophytes. In:Zoologie. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe : exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829 / sous le commandement de J. Dumont d'Urville. pp. 1-390. Paris, J. Tastu., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2064339 page(s): 279, pl. 23; note: genus name rendered as Alcyonum [details]
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