African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Aldersladum sodwanum (Benayahu, 1993)

AfReMaS taxon details

Aldersladum sodwanum (Benayahu, 1993)

AphiaID

565326 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:565326)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Aldersladum Benayahu & McFadden, 2011

Original name

Efflatounaria sodwanae Benayahu, 1993

Synonymised names

Efflatounaria sodwanae Benayahu, 1993 · unaccepted > superseded combination (original combination)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Efflatounaria sodwanae 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): 11-14 [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Aldersladum sodwanum (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=565326 on 2026-07-08

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. Aldersladum sodwanum (Benayahu, 1993). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565326 on 2026-07-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2011-03-20 07:48:25Z

created

van Ofwegen, Leen

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original description (of Efflatounaria sodwanae 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): 11-14 [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

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Aldersladum sodwanum)
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 14 proteins) (from synonym Efflatounaria sodwanae Benayahu, 1993)
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 14 proteins)