Plexaurella dichotoma (Esper, 1788)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Anthozoa
- order
- Malacalcyonacea
- family
- Plexaurellidae
- genus
- Plexaurella
- species
- Plexaurella dichotoma
Name
- Synonyms
- Eunicea anceps Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
- Gorgonia dichotoma Esper, 1791
- Plexaura dichotoma (Esper, 1791)
- Sympodium ochraceum Ehrenberg, 1834
- Homonyms
- Plexaurella dichotoma (Esper, 1788)
- Common names
- Double-forked plexaurella in language.
- double-forked plexaurella in language.
- double-forked plexaurella in English
- double-forked plexaurella in English
- slit-pore sea rod in English
- slit-pore sea rod in English
- slit-pore sea rod in English
- Double-forked Plexaurella in English
- double-forked plexaurella in English
- slit-pore sea rod in English
Bibliographic References
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- Amaral, F. D.; Ramos, C. A. C.; Leão, Z. M. A. N.; Kikuchi, R. K. P.; Lima, K. K. M.; Longo, L.; Cordeiro, R. T. S.; Lira, S. M. A.; Vasconcelos, S. L. (2009). Checklist and morphometry of benthic cnidarians from the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 50, 277-290
- Bayer, F. M. (1954). Anthozoa: Alcyonaria. Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.), 89, 279-284
- Bayer, F.M. (1957). Additional records of Western Atlantic octocorals. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 47(11): 379-390.
- Bayer, F.M. (1961). The shallow-water Octocorallia of the West Indian region. A manual for marine biologists. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and Other Caribbean Islands.</em> 12:1-373, pls. 1-23.
- Cairns, S.D., and Bayer, F.M., 2009. Octocorallia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 321–331 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
- Cairns, Stephen D., Dale R. Calder, Anita Brinckmann-Voss, Clovis B. Castro, Daphne G. Fautin,..., 2002: Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophora, Second Edition, 2002. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 28. xi + 115.
- Cordeiro, R. T. S.; McFadden, C. S.; Sánchez, J. A.; Pérez, C. D. (2021). Revision of the genus Plexaurella Kölliker, 1865 (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) and resurrection of Plexaurellidae Verrill, 1912 new rank. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 35(8) 892-921.
- Lasker, H. R.; Coffroth, M. (1983). Octocoral distributions at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 13, 21-28
- Sánchez, J. A.; Wirshing, H. H. (2005). A field key to the identification of tropical western Atlantic zooxanthellate octocorals (Octocorallia: Cnidaria). Caribbean Journal of Science, 41(3): 508-522
- Wirshing, H. H.; Messing, C. G.; Douady, C. J.; Reed, J. K.; Stanhope, M. J. (2005). Molecular evidence for multiple lineages in the gorgonian family Plexauridae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia). Marine Biology, 147, 497-508
- van Ofwegen, L.P.; Cairns, S.D. ; van der Land, J. (eds). (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms.