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Sinularia polydactyla (Ehrenberg, 1834)

209973  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209973)

 unaccepted > superseded combination
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  1. Variety Sinularia polydactyla var. dialichana Kolonko, 1926
  2. Variety Sinularia polydactyla var. mollis Kolonko, 1926 accepted as Sclerophytum molle (Kolonko, 1926) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
  3. Variety Sinularia polydactyla var. mamillifera C. B. Klunzinger (uncertain > unassessed)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Lobularia polydactyla Ehrenberg, 1834) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.</em> 1: 225-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29725862
page(s): 282 [details]   
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2024). World List of Octocorallia. Sinularia polydactyla (Ehrenberg, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=209973 on 2024-04-18
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original description  (of Lobularia polydactyla Ehrenberg, 1834) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.</em> 1: 225-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29725862
page(s): 282 [details]   

context source (HKRMS) Morton, B. & Morton, J. (1983). <i>The sea shore ecology of Hong Kong</i>. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 350 pp.  [details]   

basis of record Verseveldt, J. (1976). Alcyonacea from the Seychelles (Coelenterata Octocorallia. <em>Rev. Zool. Afr.</em> 90(3): 497-513. [details]   

additional source Verseveldt, J. (1971). Octocorallia from North-Western Madagascar (Part II). <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen.</em> 1-73, plates 1-15.
page(s): 4, 31 [details]   

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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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): 57 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Benayahu, Y. (1995). Species composition of soft corals (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) on the coral reefs of Sesoko Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. <em>Galaxea.</em> 12: 103–124.
page(s): 107 [details]   

additional source Benayahu, Y. (2002). Soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) of the southern Ryukyu Archipelago: The families Tubiporidae, Clavulariidae, Alcyoniidae and Briareidae. <em>Journal of the Japanese Coral Reef Society.</em> 2002(4): 11-32., available online at https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jcrs1999/2002/4/2002_4_11/_article/-char/en
page(s): 14, 20 [details]   

additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1970). Les octocoralliaires de Nha-Trang (Viet-Nam). <em>Cahiers du Pacifique.</em> 14: 115-236.
page(s): 203-204 [details]   

additional source Verseveldt, J. (1977). Octocorallia from various localities in the Pacific Ocean. <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden.</em> 150: 1-42, plates 1-10.
page(s): 3, 27 [details]   

additional source Verseveldt, J. (1974). Octocorallia from New Caledonia. <em>Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden.</em> 48(12): 95-122, plates 1-5.
page(s): 96 [details]   

additional source Verseveldt, J. (1978). Alcyonaceans (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from some Micronesian islands. <em>Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden.</em> 53(5): 49-55.
page(s): 50 [details]   

additional source Verseveldt, J. (1970). A new species of Sinularia (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from Madagascar. <em>Israel Journal of Zoology.</em> 19(3): 165-168. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 166 [details]   

additional source Verseveldt, J. (1980). A revision of the genus Sinularia May (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden.</em> 179: 1-128, plates1-38.
page(s): 108 [details]   

additional source Verseveldt, J. (1972). Report on a few octocorals from Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands. <em>Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden.</em> 47: 457-464, plate 1.
page(s): 457 [details]   

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): 315, 351 [details]   

additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1945). Les Alcyonaires du Museum: I. Famille des Alcyoniidae. II. Genre Sinularia. <em>Bulletin de la Museum Nationale d'Histoire naturelle Paris, Ser. 2.</em> 17(1): 55-63., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53907790
page(s): 61-63 [details]   

additional source Utinomi, H. (1971). Intertidal alcyonarians in the vicinity of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 28(5): 87-110, plates 15-16.
page(s): 93 [details]   

additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1972). Nouvel apport d'Octocoralliares de Madagascar et des iles avoisinantes. <em>Tethys.</em> Suppl. 3: 11-68., available online at http://paleopolis.rediris.es/benthos/REF/som/T-pdf/1972_s3-11.pdf
page(s): 22 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1966). Octocoralliaires de Madagascar et des iles avoisinantes. <em>Faune de Madagascar.</em> 21: 1-456., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60030792
page(s): 185-188 [details]   

additional source Roxas, H.A. (1933). Philippine Alcyonaria, II. The families Alcyoniidae and Nephthyidae. <em>The Philippine Journal of Science.</em> 50(4): 345-470, plates 1-5.
page(s): 353-354 [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): 50-60 [details]   

additional source Verseveldt, J. (1960). Biological results of the Snellius expedition. XX. Octocorallia from the Malay Archipelago (Part I). <em>Temminckia.</em> 10: 209-251, plate 7.
page(s): 240-241 [details]   

additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1953). Sur quelques Alcyoniides de Tahiti et des Iles Fidgi. <em>Bulletin de la Museum Nationale d'Histoire naturelle Paris, Ser. 2.</em> 25(3): 311-319., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54666584
page(s): 315-317 [details]   

additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1955). Sur quelques Alcyoniidae de la Mer Rouge. <em>Annales de l'Institut oceanographique, Monaco.</em> 30: 121-128.
page(s): 121-122 [details]   

additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1969). Les Alcyoniidae des Tuamotu (Mururoa) et des Gambier. <em>Cahiers du Pacifique.</em> 13: 133-157.
page(s): 150-151 [details]   

additional source Utinomi, H. (1956). On some alcyonarians from the West-Pacific islands (Palau, Ponape and Bonins). <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 5(2): 221-242.
page(s): 227 [details]   

additional source Utinomi, H. (1959). Fleshy alcyonarians from southern Formosa. <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 7(3): 303-312.
page(s): 305 [details]   

additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1970). Les Octocoralliaires de Nouvelle-Calédonie. <em>L'Expédition française sur les récifs coralliens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie organisée sous l'égide de la fondation Singer-Polignac 1960-1963.</em> 4: 171-350.
page(s): 265-266 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Macfadyen, L.M.I. (1936). Alcyonaria (Stolonifera, Alcyonacea, Telestacea and Gorgonacea). <em>Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929, Scientific Reports.</em> 5(2): 19-71, plates 1-5.
page(s): 38-39 [details]   

additional source Kolonko, K. (1926). Beitrage zu einer Revision der Alcyoniiden. Die Gattung Sinularia. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin.</em> 12(2): 293-334, plates 1-4.
page(s): 319-325 [details]   

additional source van Ofwegen, L.P. (1996). Octocorallia from the Bismarck Sea (part II). <em>Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden.</em> 70(13): 207-215.
page(s): 208 [details]   

additional source Thomson, J.A.; Dean, L.M.I. (1931). The Alcyonacea of the Siboga expedition with an addendum to the Gorgonacea. <em>Siboga Expeditie.</em> XIIId: 1-227, plates 1-28.
page(s): 47-48 [details]   

additional source Lüttschwager, H. (1915). Beitrage zu einer Revision der Familie Alcyoniidae. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Abteilung A.</em> 80(10): 1-42., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12955834
page(s): 4-6 [details]   

additional source Cohn, M. (1908). Alcyonacea von Madagaskar und Ostafrika. <em>Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903-1905 : mit Mitteln der Hermann und Elise geb. Heckmann Wentzel-Stiftung : Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse.</em> 2(3): 207-244, plate 10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41895931
page(s): 229-230 [details]   

additional source Hickson, S.J. (1930). Some Alcyonarians from the Eastern Pacific Ocean. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1930(14): 209-227, plates 1-3.
page(s): 209, 218, 219, 220, 221 [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): 29, 33, 80 [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): 236 [details]   

additional source Dullo, W.; Gektidis, M.; Golubic, S.; Heiss, G. A.; Kampmann, H.; Kiene, W.; Kroll, D. K.; Kuhrau, M. L.; Radtke, G.; Reijmer, J. G.; Reinicke, G. B.; Schlichter, D.; Schuhmacher, H.; Vogel, K. (1995). Factors controlling Holocene reef growth: an interdisciplinary approach. Facies, 32, 145-188
page(s): 162 [details]   

additional source Benayahu, Y.; Jeng, M. S.; Perkol-Finkel, S.; Dai, C. F. (2004). Soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from southern Taiwan. II. Species diversity and distributional patterns. Zoological Studies, 43(3): 548-560
page(s): 551, 552, 555 [details]   

additional source Cornish, A. S.; DiDonato, E. M. (2004). Resurvey of a reef flat in American Samoa after 85 years reveals devastation to a soft coral (Alcyonacea) community. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 48, 768-777
page(s): 771, 773, 774, 775 [details]   

additional source Benayahu, Y.; Yosief, T.; Schleyer, M. H. (2002). Soft corals (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) of the southern Red Sea. Israel Journal of Zoology, 48, 273-283
page(s): 277, 278 [details]   

additional source Benayahu, Y.; Shlagman, A.; Schleyer, M. H. (2003). Corals of the south-west Indian Ocean: VI. The Alcyonacea (Octocorallia) of Mozambique, with a discussion on soft coral distribution on south equatorial East African reefs. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 345, 49-57
page(s): 56 [details]   

additional source Imahara, Y. (1996). Previously recorded octocorals from Japan and adjacent seas. Precious Corals and Octocoral Research, 4-mei, 17-44
page(s): 22 [details]   

additional source Azizur Rahman, M.; Isa, Y.; Uehara, T. (2006). Studies on two closely related species of octocorallians: biochemical and molecular characteristics of the organic matrices of endoskeletal sclerites. Marine Biotechnology, 8, 415-424
page(s): 415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422 [details]   

redescription van Ofwegen, L.P.; McFadden, C.S.; Benayahu, Y. (2016). Sinularia polydactyla (Ehrenberg, 1834) (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) re-examined, with the description of a new species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 581: 71-126., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.581.7455
page(s): 76-91 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

new combination reference 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): 45 [details]   
 
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Nontype MNHN [details]
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Nontype MNHN, geounit Saudi Arabian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
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Nontype MNHN, geounit Saudi Arabian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
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Nontype RMNH Coel. 6646, geounit Madagascan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype RMNH Coel. 6647, geounit Madagascan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype RMNH Coel. 6648, geounit Madagascan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype RMNH Coel. 6649, geounit Madagascan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype RMNH Coel. 6650, geounit Madagascan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype RMNH Coel. 6651, geounit Madagascan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype RMNH Coel. 6652, geounit Madagascan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype RMNH, geounit Guam Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype RMNH, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype RMNH, geounit New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 28414, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 28415, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 28418, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 28522, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 28527, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 28528, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 28624, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 28625, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 28632, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 28637, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 30335, geounit Taiwanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 31310, geounit Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]