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Eunicella singularis (Esper, 1791)

125365  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125365)

accepted
Species
Eunicella dawydoffi Stiasny, 1938 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Eunicella pergamentacea Ridley, 1882 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Gorgonia stricta Bertoloni, 1810 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Esper, E.J.C. (1794). Die Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. Zweyter Theil. (Raspe: N�rnberg): 1-303. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50841660
page(s): 53, Gorg. Tab. 11A; note: name only give in plate [details] 
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Eunicella singularis (Esper, 1791). Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125365 on 2025-09-11
Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Eunicella singularis (Esper, 1791). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125365 on 2025-09-11
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original description (of Eunicella dawydoffi Stiasny, 1938) Stiasny, G. (1938). Die von Dr. C. Dawydoff in Franz�sisch Indochina gesammelten Gorgonarien. <em>M�moires du Mus�um National d'Histoire Naturelle, nouvelle s�rie.</em> 6(3): 355-368, plate 1., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59432836
page(s): 360-362 [details] 

original description (of Eunicella pergamentacea Ridley, 1882) Ridley, S.O. (1882). Contributions to the knowledge of the Alcyonaria. Part II, including descriptions of new species from Mauritius. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> Ser. 5, 10: 125-133, plate 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51244131
page(s): 129-130 [details] 

original description (of Gorgonia stricta Bertoloni, 1810) Bertoloni, A. (1810). Rariorum Italiae Plantarum decas tertia. <em>Accedit specimen Zoophytorum Portus Lunae.</em> [Gorgonia: 90-97]; Pisa (Raynerii Prosperi)., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=A0UPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA121&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false [details] 

original description (of ) Esper, E.J.C. (1794). Die Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. Zweyter Theil. (Raspe: N�rnberg): 1-303. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50841660
page(s): 53, Gorg. Tab. 11A; note: name only give in plate [details] 

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

basis of record van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 104-105 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Carpine, C., Grasshoff, M. (1975). Les gorgonaires de la M�diterran�e. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Oc�anographique, Monaco.</em> 7(430), 140 p., available online at http://paleopolis.rediris.es/benthos/TaP/Carpine-1975.pdf
page(s): 74-78 [details] 

additional source Weinberg, S. (1976). Revision of the common Octocorallia of the Mediterranean circalittoral. I. Gorgonacea. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 24(313): 63-104., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/548643
page(s): 64, 66, 67, 68, 70, 72, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, 92 [details] 

additional source Weinberg, S. (1977). Revision of the common Octocorallia of the Mediterranean circalittoral II. Alcyonacea. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 25(326): 131-166., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/505058
page(s): 148 [details] 

additional source Grasshoff, M. (1992). Die Flachwasser-Gorgonarien von Europa und Westafrika (Cnidaria, Anthozoa). <em>Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Band 149.</em> Frankfurt a. M., 135 pp.
page(s): 19-20 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Weinberg, S. (1978). Revision of the common Octocorallia of the Mediterranean circalittoral. III. Stolonifera. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 27(338): 139-176.
page(s): 140, 172 [details] 

additional source Grasshoff, M.; Bargibant, G. (2001). Coral Reef Gorgonians of New Caledonia. IRD �ditions. Paris., pp. 335.
page(s): 222, 223, 310, 311 [details] 

additional source Skoufas, G. (2006). Comparative biometry of Eunicella singularis (Gorgonian) sclerites at East Mediterranean Sea (North Aegean Sea, Greece). Marine Biology, 149, 1365-1370
page(s): 1365-1369 [details] 

additional source Gori, A.; Linares, C.; Rossi, S.; Coma, R.; Gili, J. (2007). Spatial variability in reproductive cycle of the gorgonians Paramuricea clavata and Eunicella singularis (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the Western Mediterranean Sea. Marine Biology, 151, 1571-1584
page(s): 1572, 1573, 1574, 1576, 1577, 1578, 1579, 1580, 1581, 1582 [details] 

additional source Coma, R.; Zabala, M.; Gili, J. (1995). Sexual reproductive effort in the Mediterranean gorgonian Paramuricea clavata. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 117, 185-192
page(s): 191 [details] 

additional source Zeevi Ben-Yosef, D.; Benayahu, Y. (1999). The gorgonian coral Acabaria biserialis: life history of a successful colonizer of artificial substrata. Marine Biology, 135, 473-481
page(s): 473 [details] 

additional source Grasshoff, M. (1999). The shallow water gorgonians of New Caledonia and adjacent islands. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 1-2, 1-121
page(s): 77 [details] 

additional source Weinberg, S. (1978). Mediterranean octocorallian communities and the abiotic environment. Marine Biology, 49, 41-57
page(s): 42, 48 [details] 

additional source Coma, R.; Ribes, M.; Zabala, M.; Gili, J. (1995). Reproduction and cycle of gonadal development in the Mediterranean gorgonian Paramuricea clavata. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 117, 173-183
page(s): 173, 178, 180, 181 [details] 

ecology source Gori, A.; Bramanti, L.; L�pez-Gonz�lez, P.; Thoma, J. N.; Gili, J.-M.; Griny�, J.; Uceira, V.; Rossi, S. (2012). Characterization of the zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate morphotypes of the Mediterranean gorgonian Eunicella singularis. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 159(7): 1485-1496., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-012-1928-3 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
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