Calcigorgia spiculifera

Calcigorgia spiculifera

Taxonavigation

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Taxonavigation: Holaxonia 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Cnidaria
Classis: Anthozoa
Subclassis: Octocorallia
Ordo: Alcyonacea
Subordo: Holaxonia

Familia: Acanthogorgiidae
Genus: Calcigorgia
Species: Calcigorgia spiculifera

Name

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Calcigorgia spiculifera Broch, 1935

Type locality: Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Fox Islands, Umnak Island.

Neotype: USNM 1012500, NE of Islands of Four Mountains, Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea: 53°11.67'N 169°41.07'W, depth 431 m, bottom temp, 3.6°C, F/N Vesteraalen cruise 94-1, haul 44, 11 June 1994, one nearly complete colony,

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Primary references

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  • Broch, H. 1935. Oktokorallen des nördlichsten Pazifischen Ozeans und ihre Beziehungen zur atlantischen Fauna. Avhandlinger utgitt av det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo. I. Matematisk-Naturvidenskapelig Klasse. 1: 1—35. Reference page.  [see page 22, original description]
  • Matsumoto, A.K., van Ofwegen, L.P., Bayer, F.M. 2019. A revision of the genus Calcigorgia (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Acanthogorgiidae) with the description of three new species. Zootaxa. 4571: 1–27. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.1.1   Reference page.  [see pages 18-22, redescription, neotype designation]

Additional references

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