Taiaroa tauhou
Taiaroa is a genus of deep-water, solitary marine octocorals in the family Taiaroidae. Taiaroa is monotypic in the family Taiaroidae and contains a single species, Taiaroa tauhou. The species was first described by the marine zoologists Frederick M. Bayer and Katherine Margaret Muzik in 1976. The scientific name derives from "Taiaroa", the submarine canyon off New Zealand in which the first specimens were found and "tauhou", the Maori word for "strange".
| Taiaroa tauhou | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Octocorallia |
| Order: | Malacalcyonacea |
| Family: | Taiaroidae Bayer & Muzik, 1976 |
| Genus: | Taiaroa Bayer & Muzik, 1976 |
| Species: | T. tauhou |
| Binomial name | |
| Taiaroa tauhou Bayer & Muzik, 1976 | |
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