WoRMS name details
Simpsonella Stiasny, 1940
204520 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204520)
unaccepted > junior homonym (of Simpsonella Cockerell, 1903)
Genus
- Species Simpsonella capensis (Simpson, 1910) accepted as Helicogorgia capensis (Simpson, 1910) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Simpsonella flagellata (Simpson, 1910) accepted as Helicogorgia flagellata (Simpson, 1910) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Simpsonella ramifera Williams, 1992 accepted as Helicogorgia ramifera (Williams, 1992) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Simpsonella spiralis (Hickson, 1904) accepted as Helicogorgia spiralis (Hickson, 1904) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Simpsonella squamifera (Kükenthal, 1919) accepted as Helicogorgia squamifera (Kükenthal, 1919) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Stiasny, G. (1940). Alcyonaria und Gorgonaria von Südafrika aus der Sammlung des South African Museum Capetown. <em>Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlansche Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling Natuurkunde, Tweede Sectie.</em> 39(3): 1-39, plates 1-4.
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McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Simpsonella Stiasny, 1940. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204520 on 2025-04-02
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Nomenclature
original description
Stiasny, G. (1940). Alcyonaria und Gorgonaria von Südafrika aus der Sammlung des South African Museum Capetown. <em>Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlansche Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling Natuurkunde, Tweede Sectie.</em> 39(3): 1-39, plates 1-4.
page(s): 31 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Williams, G.C. (1992). Biogeography of the octocorallian coelenterate fauna of southern Africa. <em>Biol. J. Linn. Soc.</em> 46: 351-401. [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 31 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Williams, G.C. (1992). Biogeography of the octocorallian coelenterate fauna of southern Africa. <em>Biol. J. Linn. Soc.</em> 46: 351-401. [details] Available for editors
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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, 72 [details]
additional source Bayer, F. M.; Stefani, J. (1988). A new species of Chrysogorgia (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea) from New Caledonia, with descriptions of some other species from the Western Pacific. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 101: 257-279.
page(s): 258 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Grasshoff, M. (1999). The shallow water gorgonians of New Caledonia and adjacent islands. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 1-2, 1-121
page(s): 19 [details]
page(s): 71, 72 [details]
additional source Bayer, F. M.; Stefani, J. (1988). A new species of Chrysogorgia (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea) from New Caledonia, with descriptions of some other species from the Western Pacific. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 101: 257-279.
page(s): 258 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Grasshoff, M. (1999). The shallow water gorgonians of New Caledonia and adjacent islands. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 1-2, 1-121
page(s): 19 [details]
