WoRMS name details
original description
(of Nephthya thyrsoidea Verrill, 1865) Verrill AE. (1866). Classification of polyps (extract condensed from Synopsis of the Polyps and Corals of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition under Commodore C. Ringgold and Captain John Rodgers, U.S.N.). <em>Communications of the Essex Institute.</em> 4: 145–152., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34752272 page(s): 151 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record
Williams, G.C. (1992). Biogeography of the octocorallian coelenterate fauna of southern Africa. <em>Biol. J. Linn. Soc.</em> 46: 351-401. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
van Ofwegen, L.P., S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds). (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Alderslade, P. (2001). Six new genera and six new species of soft coral, and some proposed familial and subfamilial changes within the Alcyonacea. <em>Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 10:15-65. page(s): 63 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Verseveldt, J. (1977). Australian Octocorallia (Coelenterata). <em>Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research.</em> 28: 171-240. page(s): 185, 200 [details]
additional source
Utinomi, H. (1961). A revision of the nomenclature of the family Nephtheidae (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea). II. The boreal genera Gersemia, Duva, Drifa and Pseudodrifa (n.g.). <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> IX(1): 229-246, pl. XI., available online at https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/174655/1/fia0091_229.pdf page(s): 241 [details]
additional source
Williams, G.C. (1988). Four new species of southern African octocorals (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea), with a further diagnostic revision of the genus Alcyonium Linnaeus, 1758. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 92: 1-26. page(s): 25 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Williams, G.C. (1992). The Alcyonacea of southern Africa. Stoloniferous octocorals and soft corals (Coelenterata, Anthozoa). <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 100: 249-358., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41110040 page(s): 333-335 [details]
additional source
Utinomi, H. (1960). A revision of the nomenclature of the family Nephtheidae (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea). I. The genera Capnella, Scleronephthya and Chondronephthya (n.g.). <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 8(1): 27-40., available online at https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/174705/1/fia0081_027.pdf page(s): 31 [details]
additional source
Verseveldt, J.; Williams, G.C. (1988). A redescription of the soft coral Alcyonium valdiviae Kukenthal, 1906, with the description of a new species of Litophyton Forskal, 1775, from southern Africa (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 97(12): 315-328., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40688408 page(s): 327 [details]
additional source
Williams, G.C. (1987). The aberrant and monotypic soft coral genus Malacacanthus Thomson, 1910 (Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) endemic to southern Africa. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 21: 1337-1346. page(s): 1341 [details]
source of synonymy
McFadden, C.S.; van Ofwegen, L.P. (2012). A revision of the soft coral genus, Eunephthya Verrill, 1869 (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Nephtheidae), with a description of four new species from South Africa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3485: 1-25., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3485.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
Nontype SAfM H3385, geounit South African Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype SAfM H3415, geounit South African Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype SAfM H917, geounit Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Language | Name | |
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English |
cauliflower soft coral |
[details] |
German |
Blumenkohl-Weichkoralle |
[details] |
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