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Nidaliidae
| Description | Nidaliidae is a family of soft corals in the phylum Cnidaria. Some members of this family are similar in appearance to gorgonians (sea fans). They are difficult to keep in the reef aquarium because they do not contain symbiotic zooxanthellae and therefore need to be fed on zooplankton. Others, in the genera Agaricoidea, Nidalla and Pieterfaurea, more resemble members of the family Nephtheidae and these are somewhat easier to keep in the aquarium. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidaliidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Alcyonacea : Nidaliidae | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Nidaliidae | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | γΏγ€γγγγ΅γ« | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidaliidae |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Agaricoides genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Chironephthya genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Nephthyigorgia genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Nidalia genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Nidaliopsis genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Orlikia genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Siphonogorgia genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Stereacanthia genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
| Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| CoL2006/ITIS - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Cairns, Stephen D., Dale R. Calder, Anita Brinckmann-Voss, Clovis B. Castro, Daphne G. Fautin,..., 2002: Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophora, Second Edition, 2002. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 28. xi + 115. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
