CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Cnidaria (phylum) » Anthozoa (class) » Alcyonacea (order) » Xeniidae (family)

CAAB Code:	11 202903 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ezziona spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category:	11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies
Family:	11 202 Xeniidae (soft corals) - show full list
Common Name:	[a soft coral]
Organism Type:	a soft coral
Synonyms:	Ixion spp.
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	11 202000 Xeniidae
Child Codes:	11 202002 Ezziona dinesenae

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:76d60c83-9e8a-424a-8534-3541163b105c Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

Record source:	Alderslade, P., 2001. Six new genera and six new species of soft coral, with some proposed familial and subfamilial changes within the Alcyonacea (Coelenterata: Octocorallia)., Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, Vol. 10: 15-65.
Scientific Name verified against:	Alderslade, P., Janes, P., 2017. Ixion Alderslade, 2001 and Ixioninae Alderslade, 2001 (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Xeniidae): correctio errorum., Zootaxa, Vol. 4300(1): 147-148. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4300.1.10 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4300.1.10

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