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Eunicea  Lamouroux, 1816
Taxonomic Serial No.: 52183

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2005   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    PhylumCnidaria Hatschek, 1888 – cnidarians, coelenterates, cnidaires, coelentérés, água viva, anêmona, caravela, cnidario, coral, hidra  
       SubphylumAnthozoa   
          ClassAnthozoa Ehrenberg, 1834 – corals, flower animals, sea anemones, anémones de mer, coraux, água viva, anêmona, antozoário, caravela, corais, gorgônia  
             SubclassOctocorallia Haeckel, 1866  
                OrderAlcyonacea Lamouroux, 1816 – soft corals, soft corals  
                   SuborderHolaxonia Studer, 1887  
                      FamilyPlexauridae Gray, 1859  
                         GenusEunicea Lamouroux, 1816  
    Direct Children:  
                            SpeciesEunicea asperula Milne Edwards and Haime, 1857 – knobby candelabra 
                            SpeciesEunicea calyculata (Ellis and Solander, 1786) – warty sea rod, warty eunicea 
                            SpeciesEunicea clavigera Bayer, 1961 – knobby candelabra 
                            SpeciesEunicea fusca Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1860 – doughnut sea rod 
                            SpeciesEunicea knighti Bayer, 1961  
                            SpeciesEunicea laciniata Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1860  
                            SpeciesEunicea laxispica   
                            SpeciesEunicea mammosa Lamouroux, 1816 – swollen-knob candelabrum, mammillated eunicea 
                            SpeciesEunicea palmeri Bayer, 1961 – palmer's eunicea 
                            SpeciesEunicea pinta   
                            SpeciesEunicea succinea (Pallas, 1766) – shelf-knob sea rod 
                            SpeciesEunicea tourneforti Milne Edwards and Haime, 1857 – tournefort's knobby candelabra 
       

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  Source: Alphabetical List of Valid Octocoral Genera, website (version undefined)  
  Acquired: 2005   
  Notes: Maintained by Gary C. Williams. Available at http://www.calacademy.org/research/izg/OCTOGEN.htm   
  Reference for: Eunicea   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bayer, Frederick M.   
  Publication Date: 1956   
  Article/Chapter Title: Octocorallia   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part F: Coelenterata   
  Page(s): F166-F231   
  Publisher: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press   
  Publication Place: Lawrence, Kansas, USA   
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  Notes: 1963 reprint edition. Separately authored chapters may include original descriptions   
  Reference for: Eunicea   
       

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