Eunicea, LAMOUROUX, 1816

Sánchez, Juan Armando, 2009, Systematics of the candelabrum gorgonian corals (Eunicea Lamouroux; Plexauridae; Octocorallia; Cnidaria), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (2), pp. 237-263 : 239

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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00515.x

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scientific name

Eunicea
status

 

EUNICEA LAMOUROUX, 1816 View in CoL

Diagnostic character: Plexaurids with spindles of the middle ring layer averaging a length >> 1 mm, which can be greater than 5 mm in some species.

Lamouroux JVF. 1816. Historie des polypiers coralligenes flexibles, vulgairement nommes zoophytes. Caen: F. Poisson.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Alcyonacea

Family

Plexauridae