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Lobophytum Catalai
''Lobophytum catalai'' is a species of the genus ''Lobophytum ''Lobophytum'' is a genus of soft corals commonly known as devil's hand corals or devil's hand leather corals. Habitat and range ''Lobophytum'' species can be found in shallow water throughout a wide area of the tropical Indo-Pacific The ....'' References Alcyoniidae Animals described in 1957 {{Anthozoa-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muséum National D'histoire Naturelle
The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Jardin des Plantes on the left bank of the River Seine. It was formally founded in 1793 during the French Revolution, but was begun even earlier in 1635 as the royal garden of medicinal plants. The museum now has 14 sites throughout France. History 17th–18th century File:Jardin du roi 1636.png, The Royal Garden of Medicinal Plants in 1636 File:Buffon statue dsc00979.jpg, Statue of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in the formal garden File:Buffon, Georges Louis - Leclerc, comte de – Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, 1763 – BEIC 8822844.jpg, Buffon's "Natural History" (1763) File:MNHN-logo.jpg, The museum's seal, designed in 1793, illustrates the three realms of Nature, Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lobophytum
''Lobophytum'' is a genus of soft corals commonly known as devil's hand corals or devil's hand leather corals. Habitat and range ''Lobophytum'' species can be found in shallow water throughout a wide area of the tropical Indo-Pacific. Species *'' Lobophytum altum'' Tixier-Durivault, 1956 *'' Lobophytum anomolum'' Li, 1984 *''Lobophytum batarum'' Moser, 1919 *'' Lobophytum borbonicum'' von Marenzeller, 1886 *'' Lobophytum caputospiculatum'' Li, 1984 *''Lobophytum catalai'' Tixier-Durivault, 1957 *''Lobophytum compactum'' Tixier-Durivault, 1956 *'' Lobophytum crassodigitum'' Li, 1984 *'' Lobophytum crassospiculatum'' (Moser, 1919) *'' Lobophytum crassum'' von Marenzeller, 1886 *''Lobophytum crebliplicatum'' von Marenzeller, 1886 *'' Lobophytum cristagalli'' von Marenzeller, 1886 *''Lobophytum cristatum'' Tixier-Durivault, 1970 *''Lobophytum cryptocormum'' Verseveldt & Tursch, 1979 *'' Lobophytum delectum'' Tixier-Durivault, 1966 *''Lobophytum densum'' Tixier-Durivault, 1970 *'' Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcyoniidae
Alcyoniidae is a family of leathery or soft corals in the phylum Cnidaria.Leathery corals Wildsingapore.com (2010-02-28). Retrieved on 2013-09-17. Description A colony of leathery coral is stiff, hard and inflexible. It is composed of tiny polyps projecting from a shared leathery tissue. Members of the family may have two kinds of polyps; the autozooids have long trunks and eight tiny branched tentacles and project from the shared leathery tissue while the siphonozooids remain below the surface and pump water for the colony. They appear as tiny hollows or mounds among the taller autozooids. Different genera have different proportions of these two kinds of polyps. The autozooids only emerge when the colony is fully submerged.Distribution and habitat Leathe ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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