Muricea squarrosa

Muricea squarrosa

Taxonavigation

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: Plexauridae
Genus: Muricea
Species: Muricea squarrosa

Name

Muricea squarrosa Verrill, 1869: 423

• Lectotype YPM IZ 058553 (original catalogue number YPM 1561a) dry (with sponge); Pacific Ocean; Gulf of Panama; Panama; Pearl Islands (see Breedy & Guzman, 2015)

References

Primary references

• Verrill, A.E. 1869. Notes on Radiata in the Museum of Yale College, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. 6. Review of the Corals and Polyps of the west coast of America. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1(2): 423–502, pls. 4–10. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Breedy, O. & Guzman, H.M. 2015. A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. Zookeys, 537: 1–32. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.537.6025 Full article Reference page.