WoRMS taxon details
Scleronephthya Studer, 1887
205324 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205324)
accepted
Genus
Paraspongodes Kükenthal, 1895 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Scleronephthya corymbosa Verseveldt & Cohen, 1971
- Species Scleronephthya crassa (Kükenthal, 1895)
- Species Scleronephthya flexilis Thomson & Simpson, 1909
- Species Scleronephthya gracillima (Kükenthal, 1906)
- Species Scleronephthya lewinsohni Verseveldt & Benayahu, 1978
- Species Scleronephthya macrospina Thomson, 1927
- Species Scleronephthya pallida (Whitelegge, 1897)
- Species Scleronephthya pustulosa Wright & Studer, 1889
- Species Scleronephthya spiculosa (Kükenthal, 1906)
- Species Scleronephthya indica (Thomson & Henderson, 1906) (unaccepted > interim unpublished)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Studer, T. (1887). Versuch eines Systemes der Alcyonaria. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 53(1):1-74., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6379196
page(s): 20 [details]
page(s): 20 [details]
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Scleronephthya Studer, 1887. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205324 on 2025-05-02
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Nomenclature
original description
Studer, T. (1887). Versuch eines Systemes der Alcyonaria. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 53(1):1-74., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6379196
page(s): 20 [details]
original description (of Paraspongodes Kükenthal, 1895) Kükenthal, W. (1895). Alcyonaceen von Ternate. Fam. Nephthyidae Verrill. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 18(488-489): 426-442., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9728769
page(s): 439 [details]
basis of record Verseveldt, J.; Cohen, J. (1971). Some new species of Octocorallia from the Gulf of Elat (Red Sea). <em>Israel Journal of Zoology.</em> 20: 53-67. [details]
page(s): 20 [details]
original description (of Paraspongodes Kükenthal, 1895) Kükenthal, W. (1895). Alcyonaceen von Ternate. Fam. Nephthyidae Verrill. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 18(488-489): 426-442., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9728769
page(s): 439 [details]
basis of record Verseveldt, J.; Cohen, J. (1971). Some new species of Octocorallia from the Gulf of Elat (Red Sea). <em>Israel Journal of Zoology.</em> 20: 53-67. [details]
Other
additional source
Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors 
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additional source Alderslade, P. (2002). A new soft coral genus (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from Palau. <em>Beagle: Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, The.</em> 18, 1.
page(s): 3 [details]
additional source Verseveldt, J. (1983). The Octocorallian genera Spongodes Lesson, Neospongodes Kükenthal and Stereonephthya Kükenthal. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 33(1): 1-13., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/548867
page(s): 11 [details]
additional source Utinomi, H. (1960). Noteworthy octocorals collected off the southwest coast of Kii Peninsula, Middle Japan. Part I. Stolonifera and Alcyonacea. <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 8(1): 1-26, plates 1-2., available online at https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/174706/1/fia0081_001.pdf
page(s): 22 [details]
additional source Utinomi, H. (1958). A revision of the genera Nidalia and Bellonella with an emendation of nomenclature and taxonomic definitions for the family Nidaliidae (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology.</em> 5(5): 101-121., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2342008
page(s): 116 [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 [details]
additional source Fabricius, K.; Alderslade, P. (2001). Soft Corals and Sea Fans: A Comprehensive Guide to the Shallow-water Genera of the Central-West Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville.</em> pp. 264.
page(s): iv, 45, 46, 51, 110-111, 112, 114, 118 [details]
additional source Williams, G. C. (1989). A review of recent research on the sublittoral coral reefs of northern Natal with a provisional assessment of findings regarding the distribution of octocorals on Two-Mile Reef, Sodwana Bay. South African Journal of Science, 85, 140-141
page(s): 140 [details]
additional source Hickson, S. J. (1930). On the classification of the Alcyonaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, XIV, 229-252
page(s): 245 [details]
additional source Williams, G. C. (1993). Coral Reef Octocorals: An Illustrated Guide to the Soft Corals, Sea Fans and Sea Pens Inhabiting the Coral Reefs of Northern Natal. Durban Natural Science Museum. Durban., pp. 63.
page(s): 12 [details]
additional source Imahara, Y. (2006). Preliminary report on the alcyonacean and pennatulacean octocorals collected by the natural history research of the Sagami Sea. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) [Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan], 40, 91-101
page(s): 98 [details]
additional source Hickson, S. J. (1908). On the systematic position of Eunephthya maldivensis Hickson. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 33(5-6): 173-176
page(s): 173 [details]
[request]additional source Alderslade, P. (2002). A new soft coral genus (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from Palau. <em>Beagle: Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, The.</em> 18, 1.
page(s): 3 [details]
additional source Verseveldt, J. (1983). The Octocorallian genera Spongodes Lesson, Neospongodes Kükenthal and Stereonephthya Kükenthal. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 33(1): 1-13., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/548867
page(s): 11 [details]
additional source Utinomi, H. (1960). Noteworthy octocorals collected off the southwest coast of Kii Peninsula, Middle Japan. Part I. Stolonifera and Alcyonacea. <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 8(1): 1-26, plates 1-2., available online at https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/174706/1/fia0081_001.pdf
page(s): 22 [details]
additional source Utinomi, H. (1958). A revision of the genera Nidalia and Bellonella with an emendation of nomenclature and taxonomic definitions for the family Nidaliidae (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology.</em> 5(5): 101-121., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2342008
page(s): 116 [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 [details]
additional source Fabricius, K.; Alderslade, P. (2001). Soft Corals and Sea Fans: A Comprehensive Guide to the Shallow-water Genera of the Central-West Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville.</em> pp. 264.
page(s): iv, 45, 46, 51, 110-111, 112, 114, 118 [details]
additional source Williams, G. C. (1989). A review of recent research on the sublittoral coral reefs of northern Natal with a provisional assessment of findings regarding the distribution of octocorals on Two-Mile Reef, Sodwana Bay. South African Journal of Science, 85, 140-141
page(s): 140 [details]
additional source Hickson, S. J. (1930). On the classification of the Alcyonaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, XIV, 229-252
page(s): 245 [details]
additional source Williams, G. C. (1993). Coral Reef Octocorals: An Illustrated Guide to the Soft Corals, Sea Fans and Sea Pens Inhabiting the Coral Reefs of Northern Natal. Durban Natural Science Museum. Durban., pp. 63.
page(s): 12 [details]
additional source Imahara, Y. (2006). Preliminary report on the alcyonacean and pennatulacean octocorals collected by the natural history research of the Sagami Sea. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) [Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan], 40, 91-101
page(s): 98 [details]
additional source Hickson, S. J. (1908). On the systematic position of Eunephthya maldivensis Hickson. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 33(5-6): 173-176
page(s): 173 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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| Japanese | ベニトサカ属 | [details] |
