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UMUTZ- Cnid-A-92

Scientific Name Pachyclavularia violacea (Quoy et Gaimard)

Type Status

Kingdom Animalia


Phylum Cnidaria


Class Anthozoa


Subclass Octocorallia


Order Alcyonacea


Suborder Stolonifera


Family Clavulariidae


Genus Pachyclavularia


Species violacea


Subspecies


Auther (Quoy et Gaimard)


Locality Bonin Islands, Chichijima Island.

Date March, 1894.

Collector Sadamori Hirota and Ryotaro Sekiguchi.

Reference Utinomi, 1956: 223.

Label
Information
“Pachyclavularia erecta Roule, Ogasawara Is., III 1894 (H. Utinomi det.)”.

Remarks Colony: three fragments.
Precise information concerning the locality, date, and collector’s name are cited from the reference, even though the month of collection differs from that on the original label. P. erecta Roule is a junior synonym of Pachyclavularia violacea according to Utinomi (1956). These specimens had been stored in formalin.