African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS name details

Efflatounaria Gohar, 1939

AphiaID

205247 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205247)

Classification

Status

uncertain > taxon inquirendum

Rank

Genus

Parent

Xeniidae Ehrenberg, 1828

Direct children (3)

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Species Efflatounaria mantoni (Hickson, 1931) accepted as Cespitularia mantoni Hickson, 1931 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Efflatounaria nana (Hickson, 1931) accepted as Aldersladum nana (Hickson, 1931) (unaccepted > superseded combination, changed combination)
Species Efflatounaria sodwanae Benayahu, 1993 accepted as Aldersladum sodwanum (Benayahu, 1993) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)

Environment

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

Original description

Gohar, H.A.F. (1939). On a new xeniid genus Efflatounaria. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Ser. 11, 3: 32-36. [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Efflatounaria Gohar, 1939. 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=205247 on 2026-06-08

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. Efflatounaria Gohar, 1939. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205247 on 2026-06-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-09-22 10:53:32Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-11 06:44:08Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2010-09-17 06:17:46Z

checked

van Ofwegen, Leen

2020-11-05 15:53:45Z

changed

McFadden, Cathy

2020-12-14 03:20:34Z

changed

McFadden, Cathy

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original description Gohar, H.A.F. (1939). On a new xeniid genus Efflatounaria. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Ser. 11, 3: 32-36. [details]

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record NODC. (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes. [details]

additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Reinicke, G.B. (1997). Xeniidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) of the Red Sea, with descriptions of six new species of Xenia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia. 16: 5-62.
page(s): 6, 7, 22, 55, 59 [details]

additional source Kruger, A.; Schleyer, M. H.; Benayahu, Y. (1998). Reproduction in Anthelia glauca (Octocorallia: Xeniidae). I. Gametogenesis and larval brooding. Marine Biology, 131, 423-432, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s002270050335
page(s): 429 [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): 85 [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, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-007-0679-z
page(s): 273, 274 [details]

additional source Benayahu, Y.; Schleyer, M. H. (1998). Reproduction in Anthelia glauca (Octocorallia: Xeniidae). II. Transmission of algal symbionts during planular brooding. Marine Biology, 131, 433-442, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s002270050336
page(s): 433 [details]

additional source Benayahu, Y. (1991). Reproduction and developmental pathways of Red Sea Xeniidae (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). Hydrobiologia, 216/217, 125-130, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00026452
page(s): 129 [details]

additional source Bayer, F. M. (1992). The helioporacean octocoral Epiphaxum, recent and fossil: a monographic iconography. Studies in Tropical Oceanography, 15, 1-76
page(s): 10, 64 [details] Available for editors

additional source Reinicke, G. B. (1997). Different modes of adaptation to light conditions in Red Sea Xeniidae reflected by their depth distribution patterns (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Coelenterate Biology, 393-402
page(s): 393 [details]

status source Benayahu, Y.; McFadden, C.S. (2011). A new genus of soft coral of the family Alcyoniidae (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) with re-description of a new combination and description of a new species. Zookeys. 84: 1-11., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.84.781 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Efflatounaria)
To Genbank
To ITIS