Briareum asbestinum (Pallas, 1766)

Samimi-Namin, Kaveh & van Ofwegen, Leen P., 2016, Overview of the genus Briareum (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Briareidae) in the Indo-Pacific, with the description of a new species, ZooKeys 557, pp. 1-44 : 5

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.557.6298
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scientific name	Briareum asbestinum (Pallas, 1766)
status

Treatment

Taxon classification Animalia Alcyonacea Briareidae

Briareum asbestinum (Pallas, 1766) View in CoL

Alcyonium asbestinum Pallas, 1766: 344.

Briareum gorgonoideum Blainville, 1830: 484.

Ammothea polyanthes Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860: 15, pl. 1 fig. 6.

Erythropodium marquesarum Kükenthal, 1916a: 173; 1919: 34 (Marquesas-Islands, Caribbean)

Briareum asbestinum Kükenthal, 1916b: 469, figs F–H, pl. 23 figs 1-7; Verseveldt 1940: 9, figs 2-4; Bayer 1961: 62, fig. 11; Bilewitch et al. 2010: 93.

Distribution.

Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico.