WoRMS taxon details
Lobophytum Marenzeller, 1886
206153 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206153)
accepted
Genus
Amocella Gray, 1869 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Lobophytum altum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
- Species Lobophytum andamanensis Rajendra & Raghunathan, 2024
- Species Lobophytum anomolum Li, 1984
- Species Lobophytum batarum Moser, 1919
- Species Lobophytum borbonicum von Marenzeller, 1886
- Species Lobophytum caputospiculatum Li, 1984
- Species Lobophytum catalai Tixier-Durivault, 1957
- Species Lobophytum compactum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
- Species Lobophytum crassodigitum Li, 1984
- Species Lobophytum crassum von Marenzeller, 1886
- Species Lobophytum crebriplicatum von Marenzeller, 1886
- Species Lobophytum cristatum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Lobophytum cryptocormum Verseveldt & Tursch, 1979
- Species Lobophytum delectum Tixier-Durivault, 1966
- Species Lobophytum densum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Lobophytum denticulatum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
- Species Lobophytum depressum Tixier-Durivault, 1966
- Species Lobophytum durum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
- Species Lobophytum gazellae Moser, 1919
- Species Lobophytum hapalolobatum Verseveldt, 1983
- Species Lobophytum hirsutum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
- Species Lobophytum hsiehi Benayahu & Ofwegen, 2011
- Species Lobophytum ignotum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
- Species Lobophytum irregulare Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Lobophytum jaeckeli Tixier-Durivault, 1956
- Species Lobophytum jasparsi van Ofwegen, 1999
- Species Lobophytum laevigatum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
- Species Lobophytum lamarcki Tixier-Durivault, 1956
- Species Lobophytum latilobatum Verseveldt, 1971
- Species Lobophytum legitimum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Lobophytum lighti Moser, 1919
- Species Lobophytum longispiculatum Li, 1984
- Species Lobophytum meandriforme Tixier-Durivault, 1956
- Species Lobophytum michaelae Tixier-Durivault, 1956
- Species Lobophytum microlobulatum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Lobophytum microspiculatum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
- Species Lobophytum mirabile Tixier-Durivault, 1956
- Species Lobophytum mortoni Benayahu & van Ofwegen, 2009
- Species Lobophytum oligoverrucum Li, 1984
- Species Lobophytum patulum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
- Species Lobophytum pauciflorum (Ehrenberg, 1834)
- Species Lobophytum planum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Lobophytum proprium (Tixier-Durivault, 1970)
- Species Lobophytum prostratum Verseveldt & Benayahu, 1983
- Species Lobophytum pusillum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Lobophytum pygmapedium Li, 1984
- Species Lobophytum ransoni Tixier-Durivault, 1957
- Species Lobophytum rigidum Benayahu, 1995
- Species Lobophytum rotundum Tixier-Durivault, 1957
- Species Lobophytum salvati Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Lobophytum sarcophytoides Moser, 1919
- Species Lobophytum schoedei Moser, 1919
- Species Lobophytum solidum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Lobophytum spicodigitum Li, 1984
- Species Lobophytum strictum Tixier-Durivault, 1957
- Species Lobophytum tecticum Alderslade & Shirwaiker, 1991
- Species Lobophytum variatum Tixier-Durivault, 1957
- Species Lobophytum varium Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Lobophytum venustum Tixier-Durivault, 1957
- Species Lobophytum verrucosum Li, 1984
- Species Lobophytum verum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Lobophytum angulatum Tixier-Durivault, 1956 accepted as Lobophytum crassum von Marenzeller, 1886 (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum caledonense Tixier-Durivault, 1956 accepted as Lobophytum crassum von Marenzeller, 1886 (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum candelabrum Roule, 1908 accepted as Lobophytum pauciflorum (Ehrenberg, 1834) (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum carnatum Tixier-Durivault, 1956 accepted as Sarcophyton crassocaule Moser, 1919 (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum chevalieri Tixier-Durivault, 1970 accepted as Lobophytum pauciflorum (Ehrenberg, 1834) (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum confertum (Dana, 1846) accepted as Sclerophytum confertum (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Lobophytum crassospiculatum Moser, 1919 accepted as Lobophytum crassum von Marenzeller, 1886 (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum cristagalli von Marenzeller, 1886 accepted as Lobophytum crassum von Marenzeller, 1886 (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum densum Whitelegge, 1897 accepted as Sclerophytum densum (Whitelegge, 1897) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Lobophytum hedleyi Whitelegge, 1897 accepted as Lobophytum crassum von Marenzeller, 1886 (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum madreporoides Ridley, 1887 accepted as Lobophytum pauciflorum (Ehrenberg, 1834) (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum marenzelleri Wright & Studer, 1889 accepted as Sclerophytum marenzelleri (Wright & Studer, 1889) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Lobophytum nodosum Tixier-Durivault, 1969 accepted as Lobophytum catalai Tixier-Durivault, 1957 (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum oblongum Tixier-Durivault, 1956 accepted as Lobophytum crebriplicatum von Marenzeller, 1886 (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum pulchellum Tixier-Durivault, 1957 accepted as Sarcophyton pulchellum (Tixier-Durivault, 1957) (original combination)
- Species Lobophytum radiatum Tixier-Durivault, 1957 accepted as Sarcophyton crassocaule Moser, 1919 (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum robustum Tixier-Durivault, 1957 accepted as Lobophytum ransoni Tixier-Durivault, 1957 (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum roxasi Moser, MS accepted as Lobophytum gazellae Moser, 1919 (manuscript name with existing type specimen)
- Species Lobophytum spissum Tixier-Durivault, 1970 accepted as Lobophytum varium Tixier-Durivault, 1970 (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum tenerum Tixier-Durivault, 1957 accepted as Sarcophyton crassocaule Moser, 1919 (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum tuberculosum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) accepted as Sclerophytum whiteleggei (Lüttschwager, 1914) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Lobophytum undatum Tixier-Durivault, 1957 accepted as Sarcophyton crassocaule Moser, 1919 (synonym)
- Species Lobophytum expansum (uncertain > unassessed)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
von Marenzeller, E. (1886). Ueber die Sarcophytum bennanten Alcyoniiden. <em>Zoologische Jahrbucher.</em> 1: 341-368, plate 9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9959972
page(s): 352 [details]
page(s): 352 [details]
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Lobophytum Marenzeller, 1886. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206153 on 2025-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
von Marenzeller, E. (1886). Ueber die Sarcophytum bennanten Alcyoniiden. <em>Zoologische Jahrbucher.</em> 1: 341-368, plate 9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9959972
page(s): 352 [details]
original description (of Amocella Gray, 1869) Gray, J.E. (1869). Notes on the fleshy alcyonoid corals (Alcyonium, Linn., or Zoophytaria carnosa). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 4.</em> 3(13-18): 117-131., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24740479
page(s): 124 [details]
basis of record Benayahu, Y (1993). Corals of the South-west Indian Ocean. I. Alcyonacea from Sodwana Bay, South Africa. Oceanographic Research Institute, Investigational Report No. 67. 16 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 352 [details]
original description (of Amocella Gray, 1869) Gray, J.E. (1869). Notes on the fleshy alcyonoid corals (Alcyonium, Linn., or Zoophytaria carnosa). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 4.</em> 3(13-18): 117-131., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24740479
page(s): 124 [details]
basis of record Benayahu, Y (1993). Corals of the South-west Indian Ocean. I. Alcyonacea from Sodwana Bay, South Africa. Oceanographic Research Institute, Investigational Report No. 67. 16 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
status source
McFadden, C.S.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Quattrini, A.M. (2022). Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics. <em>Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists.</em> 1(3), 8735, pp. 1-79., available online at https://ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb/article/view/8735
page(s): 44-45 [details]
page(s): 44-45 [details]
Other
additional source
Williams, G.C. (1992). Biogeography of the octocorallian coelenterate fauna of southern Africa. <em>Biol. J. Linn. Soc.</em> 46: 351-401.
page(s): 366, 372, 375, 381, 400 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Alderslade, P. (2003). A new genus and new species of soft coral (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae) from the south western region of Australia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 175: 1-10.
page(s): 1, 4 [details]
additional source Williams, G.C. (2000). Two new genera of soft corals (Anthozoa: Alcyoniidae) from South Africa, with a discussion of diversity and endemism in the Southern African octocorallian fauna. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 52(6): 65-75.
page(s): 71 [details]
additional source Verseveldt, J.; Bayer, F. M. (1988). Revision of the genera Bellonella, Eleutherobia, Nidalia and Nidaliopsis (Octocorallia, Alcyoniidae and Nidalliidae), with descriptions of two new genera. <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen.</em> 245:1-131., available online at http://repository.naturalis.nl/document/149141
page(s): 10, 13 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bayer, F. M. (1993). Taxonomic status of the octocoral genus Bathyalcyon (Alcyoniidae: Anthomastinae), with descriptions of a new subspecies from the Gulf of Mexico and a new species of Anthomastus from Antarctic waters. <em>Precious Corals and Octocoral Research.</em> 1: 3–13.
page(s): 6 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Benayahu, Y. (1998). Lobe variation in Sinularia nanolobata Verseveldt, 1977 (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea). <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 63(1): 229-240.
page(s): 237 [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): 310 [details]
additional source Pratt, E.M. (1903). The Alcyonaria of the Maldives. Part II. The genera Sarcophytum, Lobophytum, Sclerophytum and Alcyonium. <em>The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagos.</em> 2(1): 503-539, plates 28-31., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11165236
page(s): 514 [details]
additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1958). Revision de la famille des Alcyoniidae: les genres Sarcophytum et Lobophytum. <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden.</em> 36: 1-179.
page(s): 88-95 [details]
additional source Utinomi, H. (1976). A review of the Japanese species of Alcyonium, with descriptions of two new species and an almost forgotten rare species (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 23(3/5): 191-204., available online at https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/175942/1/fia0233-5_191.pdf
page(s): 191 [details]
additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1951). Revision de la famille des Alcyoniidae. Le genre Sinularia May, 1898. <em>Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Memoires.</em> 2(40): 1-146.
page(s): 6, 7, 11, 12 [details]
additional source Moser, J. (1919). Beitrage zur eine Revision der Alcyonarien, I. Die Gattungen Sarcophyton Lesson und Lobophytum Marenzeller. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin.</em> 9: 219-293, plates 5-6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12133833 [details]
additional source Gohar, H.A.F. (1940). Studies on the Xeniidae of the Red Sea: their ecology, physiology, taxonomy and phylogeny. <em>Publications of the Marine Biological Station, Ghardaqa (Red Sea).</em> 2: 25-118, plates 1-7.
page(s): 36, 47, 48 [details]
additional source Benham, W.B. (1928). On some alcyonarians from New Zealand waters. <em>Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 59: 67-84., available online at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_59/rsnz_59_01_000670.pdf
page(s): 79 [details]
additional source Maragos, J. E.; Molina, M.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 8]. UNPUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED [details]
additional source Maragos, J. E.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Rose Atoll coral data compiled from US Fish and Wildlife Service 1994, Townsend Cromwell 2002, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 10]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details]
additional source Grasshoff, M.; Bargibant, G. (2001). Coral Reef Gorgonians of New Caledonia. IRD Èditions. Paris., pp. 335.
page(s): 90, 91, 312, 313 [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): 244 [details]
additional source Reinicke, G. B.; Schuhmacher, H. (1996). Significance of different traits of soft-coral assemblages (Octocorallia, Alcyoniina) in benthic reef communities of the Red Sea. Göttinger Arbeiten zur Geologie Paläontologie, Sb2, 77-84
page(s): 78, 80, 82 [details]
additional source Reinicke, G. B.; van Ofwegen, L. P. (1999). Soft corals (Alcyonacea: Octocorallia) from shallow water in the Chagos Archipelago: species assemblages and their distribution. Linnean Society Occasional Publications, 2, 67-85, plates 1-10
page(s): 70, 74 [details]
additional source Hwang, S. J.; Song, J. I. (2007). Reproductive biology and larval development of the temperate soft coral Dendronephthya gigantea (Alcyonacea: Nephtheidae). Marine Biology, 152, 273-284
page(s): 274 [details]
additional source McFadden, C. S.; Alderslade, P. N.; van Ofwegen, L. P.; Johnsen, H.; Rusmevichientong, A. (2006). Phylogenetic relationships within the tropical soft coral genera Sarcophyton and Lobophytum (Anthozoa, Octocorallia). Invertebrate Biology, 125(4): 288-305
page(s): 288, 289, 291, 292, 293, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 305 [details]
additional source Williams, G. C. (1989). A provisional annotated list of octocorallian coelenterates occurring on the sublittoral coral reefs at Sodwana Bay and Kosi Bay, northern Natal, with a key to the genera. South African Journal of Science, 85, 141-144
page(s): 142 [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
page(s): 366, 372, 375, 381, 400 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Alderslade, P. (2003). A new genus and new species of soft coral (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae) from the south western region of Australia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 175: 1-10.
page(s): 1, 4 [details]
additional source Williams, G.C. (2000). Two new genera of soft corals (Anthozoa: Alcyoniidae) from South Africa, with a discussion of diversity and endemism in the Southern African octocorallian fauna. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 52(6): 65-75.
page(s): 71 [details]
additional source Verseveldt, J.; Bayer, F. M. (1988). Revision of the genera Bellonella, Eleutherobia, Nidalia and Nidaliopsis (Octocorallia, Alcyoniidae and Nidalliidae), with descriptions of two new genera. <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen.</em> 245:1-131., available online at http://repository.naturalis.nl/document/149141
page(s): 10, 13 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bayer, F. M. (1993). Taxonomic status of the octocoral genus Bathyalcyon (Alcyoniidae: Anthomastinae), with descriptions of a new subspecies from the Gulf of Mexico and a new species of Anthomastus from Antarctic waters. <em>Precious Corals and Octocoral Research.</em> 1: 3–13.
page(s): 6 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Benayahu, Y. (1998). Lobe variation in Sinularia nanolobata Verseveldt, 1977 (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea). <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 63(1): 229-240.
page(s): 237 [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): 310 [details]
additional source Pratt, E.M. (1903). The Alcyonaria of the Maldives. Part II. The genera Sarcophytum, Lobophytum, Sclerophytum and Alcyonium. <em>The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagos.</em> 2(1): 503-539, plates 28-31., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11165236
page(s): 514 [details]
additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1958). Revision de la famille des Alcyoniidae: les genres Sarcophytum et Lobophytum. <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden.</em> 36: 1-179.
page(s): 88-95 [details]
additional source Utinomi, H. (1976). A review of the Japanese species of Alcyonium, with descriptions of two new species and an almost forgotten rare species (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 23(3/5): 191-204., available online at https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/175942/1/fia0233-5_191.pdf
page(s): 191 [details]
additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1951). Revision de la famille des Alcyoniidae. Le genre Sinularia May, 1898. <em>Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Memoires.</em> 2(40): 1-146.
page(s): 6, 7, 11, 12 [details]
additional source Moser, J. (1919). Beitrage zur eine Revision der Alcyonarien, I. Die Gattungen Sarcophyton Lesson und Lobophytum Marenzeller. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin.</em> 9: 219-293, plates 5-6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12133833 [details]
additional source Gohar, H.A.F. (1940). Studies on the Xeniidae of the Red Sea: their ecology, physiology, taxonomy and phylogeny. <em>Publications of the Marine Biological Station, Ghardaqa (Red Sea).</em> 2: 25-118, plates 1-7.
page(s): 36, 47, 48 [details]
additional source Benham, W.B. (1928). On some alcyonarians from New Zealand waters. <em>Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 59: 67-84., available online at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_59/rsnz_59_01_000670.pdf
page(s): 79 [details]
additional source Maragos, J. E.; Molina, M.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 8]. UNPUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED [details]
additional source Maragos, J. E.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Rose Atoll coral data compiled from US Fish and Wildlife Service 1994, Townsend Cromwell 2002, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 10]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details]
additional source Grasshoff, M.; Bargibant, G. (2001). Coral Reef Gorgonians of New Caledonia. IRD Èditions. Paris., pp. 335.
page(s): 90, 91, 312, 313 [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): 244 [details]
additional source Reinicke, G. B.; Schuhmacher, H. (1996). Significance of different traits of soft-coral assemblages (Octocorallia, Alcyoniina) in benthic reef communities of the Red Sea. Göttinger Arbeiten zur Geologie Paläontologie, Sb2, 77-84
page(s): 78, 80, 82 [details]
additional source Reinicke, G. B.; van Ofwegen, L. P. (1999). Soft corals (Alcyonacea: Octocorallia) from shallow water in the Chagos Archipelago: species assemblages and their distribution. Linnean Society Occasional Publications, 2, 67-85, plates 1-10
page(s): 70, 74 [details]
additional source Hwang, S. J.; Song, J. I. (2007). Reproductive biology and larval development of the temperate soft coral Dendronephthya gigantea (Alcyonacea: Nephtheidae). Marine Biology, 152, 273-284
page(s): 274 [details]
additional source McFadden, C. S.; Alderslade, P. N.; van Ofwegen, L. P.; Johnsen, H.; Rusmevichientong, A. (2006). Phylogenetic relationships within the tropical soft coral genera Sarcophyton and Lobophytum (Anthozoa, Octocorallia). Invertebrate Biology, 125(4): 288-305
page(s): 288, 289, 291, 292, 293, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 305 [details]
additional source Williams, G. C. (1989). A provisional annotated list of octocorallian coelenterates occurring on the sublittoral coral reefs at Sodwana Bay and Kosi Bay, northern Natal, with a key to the genera. South African Journal of Science, 85, 141-144
page(s): 142 [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ウネタケ属 | [details] |
