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Lobophytum Marenzeller, 1886

206153  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206153)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Octocorallia (Class)
  6. Malacalcyonacea (Order)
  7. Sarcophytidae (Family)
  8. Lobophytum (Genus)
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Genus
Amocella Gray, 1869 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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  1. Species Lobophytum altum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
  2. Species Lobophytum anomolum Li, 1984
  3. Species Lobophytum batarum Moser, 1919
  4. Species Lobophytum borbonicum von Marenzeller, 1886
  5. Species Lobophytum caputospiculatum Li, 1984
  6. Species Lobophytum catalai Tixier-Durivault, 1957
  7. Species Lobophytum compactum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
  8. Species Lobophytum crassodigitum Li, 1984
  9. Species Lobophytum crassum von Marenzeller, 1886
  10. Species Lobophytum crebriplicatum von Marenzeller, 1886
  11. Species Lobophytum cristatum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
  12. Species Lobophytum cryptocormum Verseveldt & Tursch, 1979
  13. Species Lobophytum delectum Tixier-Durivault, 1966
  14. Species Lobophytum densum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
  15. Species Lobophytum denticulatum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
  16. Species Lobophytum depressum Tixier-Durivault, 1966
  17. Species Lobophytum durum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
  18. Species Lobophytum gazellae Moser, 1919
  19. Species Lobophytum hapalolobatum Verseveldt, 1983
  20. Species Lobophytum hirsutum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
  21. Species Lobophytum hsiehi Benayahu & Ofwegen, 2011
  22. Species Lobophytum ignotum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
  23. Species Lobophytum irregulare Tixier-Durivault, 1970
  24. Species Lobophytum jaeckeli Tixier-Durivault, 1956
  25. Species Lobophytum jasparsi van Ofwegen, 1999
  26. Species Lobophytum laevigatum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
  27. Species Lobophytum lamarcki Tixier-Durivault, 1956
  28. Species Lobophytum latilobatum Verseveldt, 1971
  29. Species Lobophytum legitimum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
  30. Species Lobophytum lighti Moser, 1919
  31. Species Lobophytum longispiculatum Li, 1984
  32. Species Lobophytum meandriforme Tixier-Durivault, 1956
  33. Species Lobophytum michaelae Tixier-Durivault, 1956
  34. Species Lobophytum microlobulatum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
  35. Species Lobophytum microspiculatum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
  36. Species Lobophytum mirabile Tixier-Durivault, 1956
  37. Species Lobophytum mortoni Benayahu & van Ofwegen, 2009
  38. Species Lobophytum oligoverrucum Li, 1984
  39. Species Lobophytum patulum Tixier-Durivault, 1956
  40. Species Lobophytum pauciflorum (Ehrenberg, 1834)
  41. Species Lobophytum planum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
  42. Species Lobophytum proprium (Tixier-Durivault, 1970)
  43. Species Lobophytum prostratum Verseveldt & Benayahu, 1983
  44. Species Lobophytum pusillum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
  45. Species Lobophytum pygmapedium Li, 1984
  46. Species Lobophytum ransoni Tixier-Durivault, 1957
  47. Species Lobophytum rigidum Benayahu, 1995
  48. Species Lobophytum rotundum Tixier-Durivault, 1957
  49. Species Lobophytum salvati Tixier-Durivault, 1970
  50. Species Lobophytum sarcophytoides Moser, 1919
  51. Species Lobophytum schoedei Moser, 1919
  52. Species Lobophytum solidum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
  53. Species Lobophytum spicodigitum Li, 1984
  54. Species Lobophytum strictum Tixier-Durivault, 1957
  55. Species Lobophytum tecticum Alderslade & Shirwaiker, 1991
  56. Species Lobophytum variatum Tixier-Durivault, 1957
  57. Species Lobophytum varium Tixier-Durivault, 1970
  58. Species Lobophytum venustum Tixier-Durivault, 1957
  59. Species Lobophytum verrucosum Li, 1984
  60. Species Lobophytum verum Tixier-Durivault, 1970
  61. Species Lobophytum angulatum Tixier-Durivault, 1956 accepted as Lobophytum crassum von Marenzeller, 1886 (synonym)
  62. Species Lobophytum caledonense Tixier-Durivault, 1956 accepted as Lobophytum crassum von Marenzeller, 1886 (synonym)
  63. Species Lobophytum candelabrum Roule, 1908 accepted as Lobophytum pauciflorum (Ehrenberg, 1834) (synonym)
  64. Species Lobophytum carnatum Tixier-Durivault, 1956 accepted as Sarcophyton crassocaule Moser, 1919 (synonym)
  65. Species Lobophytum chevalieri Tixier-Durivault, 1970 accepted as Lobophytum pauciflorum (Ehrenberg, 1834) (synonym)
  66. Species Lobophytum confertum (Dana, 1846) accepted as Sclerophytum confertum (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  67. Species Lobophytum crassospiculatum Moser, 1919 accepted as Lobophytum crassum von Marenzeller, 1886 (synonym)
  68. Species Lobophytum cristagalli von Marenzeller, 1886 accepted as Lobophytum crassum von Marenzeller, 1886 (synonym)
  69. Species Lobophytum densum Whitelegge, 1897 accepted as Sclerophytum densum (Whitelegge, 1897) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
  70. Species Lobophytum hedleyi Whitelegge, 1897 accepted as Lobophytum crassum von Marenzeller, 1886 (synonym)
  71. Species Lobophytum madreporoides Ridley, 1887 accepted as Lobophytum pauciflorum (Ehrenberg, 1834) (synonym)
  72. Species Lobophytum marenzelleri Wright & Studer, 1889 accepted as Sclerophytum marenzelleri (Wright & Studer, 1889) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
  73. Species Lobophytum nodosum Tixier-Durivault, 1969 accepted as Lobophytum catalai Tixier-Durivault, 1957 (synonym)
  74. Species Lobophytum oblongum Tixier-Durivault, 1956 accepted as Lobophytum crebriplicatum von Marenzeller, 1886 (synonym)
  75. Species Lobophytum pulchellum Tixier-Durivault, 1957 accepted as Sarcophyton pulchellum (Tixier-Durivault, 1957) (original combination)
  76. Species Lobophytum radiatum Tixier-Durivault, 1957 accepted as Sarcophyton crassocaule Moser, 1919 (synonym)
  77. Species Lobophytum robustum Tixier-Durivault, 1957 accepted as Lobophytum ransoni Tixier-Durivault, 1957 (synonym)
  78. Species Lobophytum roxasi Moser, MS accepted as Lobophytum gazellae Moser, 1919 (manuscript name with existing type specimen)
  79. Species Lobophytum spissum Tixier-Durivault, 1970 accepted as Lobophytum varium Tixier-Durivault, 1970 (synonym)
  80. Species Lobophytum tenerum Tixier-Durivault, 1957 accepted as Sarcophyton crassocaule Moser, 1919 (synonym)
  81. Species Lobophytum tuberculosum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) accepted as Sclerophytum whiteleggei (Lüttschwager, 1914) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  82. Species Lobophytum undatum Tixier-Durivault, 1957 accepted as Sarcophyton crassocaule Moser, 1919 (synonym)
  83. Species Lobophytum expansum (uncertain > unassessed)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
von Marenzeller, E. (1886). Ueber die Sarcophytum bennanten Alcyoniiden. <em>Zoologische Jahrbucher.</em> 1: 341-368, plate 9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9959972
page(s): 352 [details]   
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2024). World List of Octocorallia. Lobophytum Marenzeller, 1886. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206153 on 2024-04-19
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1997-09-01 14:43:33Z
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Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-09-22 06:50:38Z
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Martinez, Olga
2010-09-17 06:17:46Z
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van Ofwegen, Leen
2019-07-10 04:52:21Z
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McFadden, Cathy
2022-07-04 17:45:55Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2022-11-04 22:11:55Z
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McFadden, Cathy
2023-02-24 05:05:46Z
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McFadden, Cathy

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original description von Marenzeller, E. (1886). Ueber die Sarcophytum bennanten Alcyoniiden. <em>Zoologische Jahrbucher.</em> 1: 341-368, plate 9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9959972
page(s): 352 [details]   

original description  (of Amocella Gray, 1869) Gray, J.E. (1869). Notes on the fleshy alcyonoid corals (Alcyonium, Linn., or Zoophytaria carnosa). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 4.</em> 3(13-18): 117-131., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24740479
page(s): 124 [details]   

basis of record 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) [details]   

additional source Williams, G.C. (1992). Biogeography of the octocorallian coelenterate fauna of southern Africa. <em>Biol. J. Linn. Soc.</em> 46: 351-401.
page(s): 366, 372, 375, 381, 400 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Alderslade, P. (2003). A new genus and new species of soft coral (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae) from the south western region of Australia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 175: 1-10.
page(s): 1, 4 [details]   

additional source Williams, G.C. (2000). Two new genera of soft corals (Anthozoa: Alcyoniidae) from South Africa, with a discussion of diversity and endemism in the Southern African octocorallian fauna. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 52(6): 65-75.
page(s): 71 [details]   

additional source Verseveldt, J.; Bayer, F. M. (1988). Revision of the genera Bellonella, Eleutherobia, Nidalia and Nidaliopsis (Octocorallia, Alcyoniidae and Nidalliidae), with descriptions of two new genera. <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen.</em> 245:1-131., available online at http://repository.naturalis.nl/document/149141
page(s): 10, 13 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Bayer, F. M. (1993). Taxonomic status of the octocoral genus Bathyalcyon (Alcyoniidae: Anthomastinae), with descriptions of a new subspecies from the Gulf of Mexico and a new species of Anthomastus from Antarctic waters. <em>Precious Corals and Octocoral Research.</em> 1: 3–13.
page(s): 6 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Benayahu, Y. (1998). Lobe variation in Sinularia nanolobata Verseveldt, 1977 (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea). <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 63(1): 229-240.
page(s): 237 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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): 310 [details]   

additional source Pratt, E.M. (1903). The Alcyonaria of the Maldives. Part II. The genera Sarcophytum, Lobophytum, Sclerophytum and Alcyonium. <em>The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagos.</em> 2(1): 503-539, plates 28-31., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11165236
page(s): 514 [details]   

additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1958). Revision de la famille des Alcyoniidae: les genres Sarcophytum et Lobophytum. <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden.</em> 36: 1-179.
page(s): 88-95 [details]   

additional source Utinomi, H. (1976). A review of the Japanese species of Alcyonium, with descriptions of two new species and an almost forgotten rare species (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 23(3/5): 191-204., available online at https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/175942/1/fia0233-5_191.pdf
page(s): 191 [details]   

additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1951). Revision de la famille des Alcyoniidae. Le genre Sinularia May, 1898. <em>Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Memoires.</em> 2(40): 1-146.
page(s): 6, 7, 11, 12 [details]   

additional source Moser, J. (1919). Beitrage zur eine Revision der Alcyonarien, I. Die Gattungen Sarcophyton Lesson und Lobophytum Marenzeller. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin.</em> 9: 219-293, plates 5-6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12133833 [details]   

additional source Gohar, H.A.F. (1940). Studies on the Xeniidae of the Red Sea: their ecology, physiology, taxonomy and phylogeny. <em>Publications of the Marine Biological Station, Ghardaqa (Red Sea).</em> 2: 25-118, plates 1-7.
page(s): 36, 47, 48 [details]   

additional source Benham, W.B. (1928). On some alcyonarians from New Zealand waters. <em>Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 59: 67-84., available online at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_59/rsnz_59_01_000670.pdf
page(s): 79 [details]   

additional source Maragos, J. E.; Molina, M.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 8]. UNPUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED [details]   

additional source Maragos, J. E.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Rose Atoll coral data compiled from US Fish and Wildlife Service 1994, Townsend Cromwell 2002, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 10]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details]   

additional source Grasshoff, M.; Bargibant, G. (2001). Coral Reef Gorgonians of New Caledonia. IRD Èditions. Paris., pp. 335.
page(s): 90, 91, 312, 313 [details]   

additional source Williams, G. C. (1989). A review of recent research on the sublittoral coral reefs of northern Natal with a provisional assessment of findings regarding the distribution of octocorals on Two-Mile Reef, Sodwana Bay. South African Journal of Science, 85, 140-141
page(s): 140 [details]   

additional source Hickson, S. J. (1930). On the classification of the Alcyonaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, XIV, 229-252
page(s): 244 [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, 80, 82 [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): 70, 74 [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 McFadden, C. S.; Alderslade, P. N.; van Ofwegen, L. P.; Johnsen, H.; Rusmevichientong, A. (2006). Phylogenetic relationships within the tropical soft coral genera Sarcophyton and Lobophytum (Anthozoa, Octocorallia). Invertebrate Biology, 125(4): 288-305
page(s): 288, 289, 291, 292, 293, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 305 [details]   

additional source Williams, G. C. (1989). A provisional annotated list of octocorallian coelenterates occurring on the sublittoral coral reefs at Sodwana Bay and Kosi Bay, northern Natal, with a key to the genera. South African Journal of Science, 85, 141-144
page(s): 142 [details]   

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]   

status source 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): 44-45 [details]   
 
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Heliopora coerulea BlueCoral DMS - incorrect, this is most likely a Lobophytum
Heliopora coerulea BlueCoral DMS - incorrect, this is most likely a Lobophytum
To NMNH Extant Collection (1250027 1235884)
To NMNH Extant Collection (1250027 1235884)
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