African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Efflatounaria sodwanae Benayahu, 1993

AfReMaS name details

Efflatounaria sodwanae Benayahu, 1993

AphiaID

212894 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212894)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination (original combination)

Accepted name

Aldersladum sodwanum (Benayahu, 1993)

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Aldersladum Benayahu & McFadden, 2011

Parent

Efflatounaria Gohar, 1939

Original name

Efflatounaria sodwanae Benayahu, 1993

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

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): 11-14 [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Efflatounaria sodwanae 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://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212894 on 2026-06-21

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 sodwanae Benayahu, 1993. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212894 on 2026-06-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-09-22 10:53:32Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-01-21 13:45:25Z

changed

van der Land, Jacob

2010-09-17 06:17:46Z

checked

van Ofwegen, Leen

2011-03-20 07:48:25Z

changed

van Ofwegen, Leen

2020-11-14 20:00:40Z

changed

McFadden, Cathy

2022-04-19 01:31:42Z

changed

McFadden, Cathy

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original description 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): 11-14 [details]

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

basis of record Schleyer, M. H. (1995). South African coral reef communities. <em>Wetlands of South Africa. Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Pretoria.</em> [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): 52 [details]

source of synonymy van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]

new combination reference 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. <em>Zookeys.</em> 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 GenBank (15 nucleotides; 14 proteins)