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Aphanipathes

Aphanipathes

Brook, 1889

GBIF:212424265

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Diagnosis (emended). Colony sparsely to densely, uniserial or irregularly branched, with elongate, straight, curved, or coiled, often ascending branches. Spines maximum 0.5 mm tall with pronounced tubercles. Polyps 1 - 2 mm in transverse diameter, with three to eight polyps per centimeter.
Horowitz, Jeremy, Opresko, Dennis M., Gonzalez-Garcia, Maria del P., Quattrini, Andrea M. (2023): Description of a new species of black coral in the family Aphanipathidae (Anthozoa, Antipatharia) from Puerto Rico. ZooKeys 1173: 97-110, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1173.104141, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1173.104141

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Description of a new species of black coral in the family Aphanipathidae (Anthozoa, Antipatharia) from Puerto Rico

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Horowitz, Jeremy, Opresko, Dennis M., Gonzalez-Garcia, Maria del P., Quattrini, Andrea M. (2023): Description of a new species of black coral in the family Aphanipathidae (Anthozoa, Antipatharia) from Puerto Rico. ZooKeys 1173: 97-110, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1173.104141, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1173.104141

Horowitz J, Opresko D M, Gonzalez-Garcia M D P, Quattrini A M, pensoft (2023). Description of a new species of black coral in the family Aphanipathidae (Anthozoa, Antipatharia) from Puerto Rico. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/gptb6b accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-16.

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GBIF Usage Key
212424265
Dataset Key
f4e12633-b9de-4300-b40b-812aadffe43b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2258118
Taxon ID
56FE208F2A0F514CA6EB5E8D62A00E1A.taxon
Last Crawled
6/9/2026
Last Interpreted
6/9/2026