African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Sclerophytum schleyeri (Benayahu, 1993)

AfReMaS taxon details

Sclerophytum schleyeri (Benayahu, 1993)

AphiaID

1608946 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1608946)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Sclerophytum Pratt, 1903

Original name

Sinularia schleyeri Benayahu, 1993

Synonymised names

Sinularia schleyeri Benayahu, 1993 · unaccepted > superseded combination (original combination)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Sinularia schleyeri Benayahu, 1993) 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)
page(s): 7-11 [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Sclerophytum schleyeri (Benayahu, 1993). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1608946 on 2026-07-04

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Sclerophytum schleyeri (Benayahu, 1993). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1608946 on 2026-07-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2022-10-29 20:55:14Z

created

McFadden, Cathy

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original description (of Sinularia schleyeri Benayahu, 1993) 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)
page(s): 7-11 [details]

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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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