Pseudopterogorgia americana
slimy sea plume·(Gmelin, 1791)
GBIF:155451695
PROFILE
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Habitat
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GEOGRAPHY
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REGIONS
Geographic Distribution(2)
DATA
Occurrence Datasets
Common names used for this species across different languages and regions.
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CLASSIFICATION
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IDENTIFIERS
External Identifiers(1)
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
NCBI:txid204378
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CITATIONS
References(8)
Bayer, F. M. (1958). Further remarks on the geographical distribution of Gorgoniidae. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 48(12): 394-396.
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.
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