| Taiaroa tauhou | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Octocorallia |
| Order: | Malacalcyonacea |
| Family: | Taiaroidae Bayer & Muzik, 1976[3] |
| Genus: | Taiaroa Bayer & Muzik, 1976[2] |
| Species: | T. tauhou
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| Binomial name | |
| Taiaroa tauhou Bayer & Muzik, 1976[1]
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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.[4] 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".[4]
- ^ van Ofwegen, Leen (2014). "Taiaroa tauhou – Bayer & Muzik, 1976". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-01-27.
- ^ van Ofwegen, Leen (2014). "Taiaroa – Bayer & Muzik, 1976". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-01-27.
- ^ van Ofwegen, Leen (2014). "Taiaroidae – Bayer & Muzik, 1976". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-01-27.
- ^ a b Bayer, Frederick M.; Muzik, Katherine Margaret (1976). "A New Solitary Octocoral, Taiaroa tauhou gen. et sp. nov. (Coelenterata: Protoalcyonaria) from New Zealand". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 6 (4): 499–515. doi:10.1080/03036758.1976.10421488.