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Phylum Cnidaria
Class Anthozoa (corals, anemones, etc.)
Subclass Ceriantharia
Subclass Hexacorallia
Subclass Octocorallia
Taxon Information
The Class Anthozoa is not recorded from fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.
(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)
Literature Records
- Anthozoa, "There are 15 orders, with 6,000 species." (Pechenik, 2015).
- Anthozoa, "approximately 7,500 extant species" (Daly et al., 2007).
Bibliography
- Pechenik, J.A. 2015. Biology of the Invertebrates, 7th edition. McGraw-Hill, NewYork.. 606 pp.
- Daly, M., M.R. Brugler, P. Cartwright, A.G. Collins, M.N. Dawson, D.G. Fautin, S.C. France, C.S. McFadden, D.M. Opresko, E. Rodriguez, S.L. Romano & J.L. Stake. 2007. The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. Zootaxa 1668: 127-182. [Available online]
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