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Sansibia Alderslade, 2000

AphiaID

267824 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267824)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Xeniidae Ehrenberg, 1828

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Species Sansibia claereboudti Samimi-Namin, Benayahu & McFadden, 2022
Species Sansibia flava (May, 1898)
Species Sansibia boquetei (Roxas, 1933) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
Species Sansibia formosana (Utinomi, 1950) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
Species Sansibia lineata (Stimpson, 1855) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Alderslade, P. (2000). Four new genera of soft corals (Coelenterata: Octocorallia), with notes on the classification of some established taxa. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden. 74: 237-249. [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Sansibia Alderslade, 2000. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267824 on 2025-05-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-14 11:18:07Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2010-09-16 09:11:12Z

changed

van Ofwegen, Leen

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description Alderslade, P. (2000). Four new genera of soft corals (Coelenterata: Octocorallia), with notes on the classification of some established taxa. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden. 74: 237-249. [details] Available for editors

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

Taxonomy

redescription Benayahu, Y.; Ekins, M.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Samimi-Namin, K.; McFadden, C.S. (2022). On some encrusting Xeniidae (Octocorallia): re-examination of the type material of Sansibia flava (May, 1898) and a description of new taxa. Zootaxa. 5093(4): 421-444., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5093.4.3 [details] Available for editors

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Other

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

additional source Alderslade, P.; McFadden, C. S. (2007). Pinnule-less polyps: a new genus and new species of Indo-Pacific Clavulariidae and validation of the soft coral genus Acrossota and the family Acrossotidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Zootaxa. 1400: 27–44.
page(s): 35 [details]

additional source Alderslade, P. (2001). Six new genera and six new species of soft coral, and some proposed familial and subfamilial changes within the Alcyonacea. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington. 10:15-65.
page(s): 60, 63 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Fabricius, K.; Alderslade, P. (2001). Soft Corals and Sea Fans: A Comprehensive Guide to the Shallow-water Genera of the Central-West Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville. pp. 264.
page(s): iv, 13, 45, 46, 54, 66, 69, 76, 150-151, 152 [details]

Present

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Introduced: alien

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