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Aphanipathes Brook 1889

Authors/Creators

  • 1. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA (dmopresko @ hotmail. com).
  • 2. Papah naumoku kea Marine National Monument, 6600 Kalaniana'ole Hwy, Suite 300, Honolulu, HI 96825 (Daniel. Wagner @ noaa. gov).
  • 3. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office, 300 Ala Moana Boulevard, Room 3 - 122, Honolulu, HI 96850 (Tony _ Montgomery @ fws. gov)
  • 4. Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA (mbrugler @ amnh. org)

Description

Aphanipathes Brook 1889

Type species. Aphanipathes sarothamnoides Brook 1889 (see Opresko 2004 for discussion).

Diagnosis. Colony sparsely to densely, irregularly branched, bushy, sometimes broom-like, with short to long, straight or curved, often ascending branches. Branches not pinnulated.

Notes

Published as part of Opresko, D. M., Wagner, D., Montgomery, A. D. & Brugler, M. R., 2012, Discovery of Aphanipathes verticillata (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia) in the Hawaiian Islands, pp. 24-39 in Zootaxa 3348 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3348.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5251708

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Related works

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3348.1.2 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5251708 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/F90DFF87FFA7FFEBFFAEF13BFFDCF401 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/20C1097E-A60C-4C87-A203-B50E068DA204 (URL)
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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Brook
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Order
Antipatharia
Family
Aphanipathidae
Genus
Aphanipathes
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Aphanipathes Brook, 1889 sec. Opresko, Wagner, Montgomery & Brugler, 2012

References

  • Brook, G. (1889) Report on the Antipatharia. Reports of the Scientific Research Voyage of the H. M. S. Challenger, Zoology, 32 (80), 1 - 222, pls 1 - 15.
  • Opresko, D. M. (2004) Revision of the Antipatharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Part IV. Establishment of a new family, Aphanipathidae. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden, 78, 209 - 240.