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Taxonomy

Physical Description

Genus Iphigenia:

Herbs perennial, cormous. Corm covered with a tunic. Stem erect, leafy. Leaves several, scattered, sessile, linear. Flowers solitary or several in a terminal corymb, small; bracts leaflike; pedicels long. Tepals 6, free, spreading, rather narrow, clawed, usually caducous. Stamens 6, inserted at base of tepals; filaments short, slightly flat; anthers versatile, extrorse. Ovary 3-loculed, ovoid to oblong; ovules many per locule. Style short, apically 3-lobed, adaxially stigmatic. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Seeds many, subglobose; testa brown, thin.

About ten species: Africa (including Madagascar), tropical Asia, Australia, Pacific Islands (New Zealand) ; one species in China.^[1]

Distribution

Similar Species

Members of the genus Iphigenia:

There are approximately 44 species and subspecies in this genus: I. abyssinica · I. altier · I. altior · I. bechuanica · I. bicolor · I. boinensis · I. brasiliana (Giant Coquina) · I. brasiliensis · I. caricina · I. compressus · I. cuneatus · I. delesserti · I. dinteri · I. faba · I. flexuosa · I. guineensis · I. indica · I. junodii · I. lacunosa · I. laevigata (Brick Goby) · I. ledermanii · I. ledermannii · I. lenzi · I. magnifica · I. mysorensis · I. nitidus · I. novae-zelandiae · I. oliveri · I. pallida · I. pauciflora · I. racemosa · I. radians · I. ramosissima · I. robusta · I. sahyadrica · I. schlechteri · I. socotrana · I. somaliensis · I. stellata · I. stenotepala · I. strumosa · I. sudanica · I. ticaonicus · I. tumida

Members of the genus Illex:

There are approximately 11 species and subspecies in this genus: I. argentinus (Argentiinankalmari) · I. coindetii (Broadtail Shortfin Squid) · I. coindetti · I. comdetii · I. illecebrosus (Encornet Rouge Nordique) · I. illecebrosus coindeti · I. illecebrosus illecebrosus · I. illicebrosa · I. oxygonius (Kalmar) · I. oxygonus · I. spp

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Notes

Data Sources:

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 19, 2008:

• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bishop Museum Data (OBIS distribution) (USOBIS)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens

Identifiers:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 17894589
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3779206

Footnotes:

1. Chen Sing-chi, Minoru N. Tamura "Iphigenia". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 158. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.