WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059 page(s): 139 [details] 
basis of record
Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomytaxonomy source
van Ofwegen, L.P. (2016). The genus Litophyton Forskål, 1775 (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea, Nephtheidae) in the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 567: 1-128., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.567.7212 [details] Available for editors [request]
Othercontext source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [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
Tixier-Durivault, A. (1970). Les octocoralliaires de Nha-Trang (Viet-Nam). <em>Cahiers du Pacifique.</em> 14: 115-236. page(s): 222-223 [details]
additional source
Verseveldt, J. (1966). Biological results of the Snellius expedition. XXII. Octocorallia from the Malay Archipelago (Part II). <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden.</em> 80: 1-109, plates 1-16. page(s): 5-9 [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): 337 [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): 24 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Verseveldt, J. (1965). Report on the Octocorallia (Stolonifera and Alcyonacea) of the Israel south Red Sea expedition 1962, with notes on other collections from the Red Sea. <em>Sea Fish Research Station Haifa, Bulletin.</em> 40: 28-48, plate 1. page(s): 33-34 [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): 296-297 [details] Available for editors [request]
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): 209 [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, 163, 167, [details]
additional source
Dahan, M.; Benayahu, Y. (1997). Reproduction of Dendronephthya hemprichi (Cnidaria: Octocorallia): year-round spawning in an azooxanthellate soft coral. Marine Biology, 129, 573-579 page(s): 576 [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, 82 [details]
additional source
Ben-David-Zaslow, R.; Henning, G.; Hofmann, D. K.; Benayahu, Y. (1999). Reproduction in the Red Sea soft coral Heteroxenia fuscescens: seasonality and long-term record (1991 to 1997). Marine Biology, 133, 553-559 page(s): 553, 554 [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
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 page(s): 437, 438, 439, 440 [details]
Nontype RMNH, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Type material Type lost [details]
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