Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Octocorallia > Order Alcyonacea > Suborder Holaxonia > Family Gorgoniidae

Leptogorgia Milne-Edwards, 1857

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Leptogorgia albipunctata Stiasny, 1936
Leptogorgia purpureoviolacea (Stiasny, 1936)
Leptogorgia sarmentosa (Esper, 1789)
Leptogorgia viminalis (Pallas, 1766)

Literature

basis of record

van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 104-105

additional source

Breedy & Guzman (2007). A revision of the genus Leptogorgia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae) in the eastern Pacific. Zootaxa 1419: 1-90

additional source

Nomenclator Zoologicus

additional source

Williams, G.C. (1992). Biogeography of the octocorallian coelenterate fauna of southern Africa. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 46:351-401.

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Citation

van Ofwegen, L. (2014). Leptogorgia Milne-Edwards, 1857. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125302

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Occurrence

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2010-09-17 by Leen van Ofwegen

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