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GBIF·2259221speciesAnimalia260 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumCnidaria
  3. ›classAnthozoa
  4. ›orderScleractinia
  5. ›familyCaryophylliidae
  6. ›genusCaryophyllia
Caryophyllia abrupta
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IUCN NE · Not evaluated

Caryophyllia abrupta

Caryophyllia abrupta Cairns, 1999

First described in: Cairns, S. D. (1999). Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. In: Crosnier, A. (Ed.) Résultats Des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 20. Mémoires Du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. Série A, Zoologie, 20(180): 31–167. https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=144379

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2259221.