WoRMS taxon details
Cladiella Gray, 1869
205863 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205863)
accepted
Genus
Lobularia Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Microspicularia Macfadyen, 1936 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Sphaerella Gray, 1869 · unaccepted > junior homonym (of Sphaerella Conrad, 1838 (Mollusca))
- Species Cladiella arborea (Utinomi, 1954)
- Species Cladiella arbusculoides Verseveldt & Benayahu, 1978
- Species Cladiella aspera Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Cladiella australis (Macfadyen, 1936)
- Species Cladiella bottai (Tixier-Durivault, 1943)
- Species Cladiella brachyclados (Ehrenberg, 1834)
- Species Cladiella ceylonica (Pratt, 1905)
- Species Cladiella conifera (Tixier-Durivault, 1943)
- Species Cladiella crassa (Tixier-Durivault, 1943)
- Species Cladiella daphnae van Ofwegen & Benayahu, 1992
- Species Cladiella densa Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Cladiella devaneyi Verseveldt, 1977
- Species Cladiella digitulata (Klunzinger, 1877)
- Species Cladiella dollfusi (Tixier-Durivault, 1943)
- Species Cladiella echinata (Tixier-Durivault, 1941)
- Species Cladiella elegantissima (May, 1899)
- Species Cladiella elongata (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella exigua (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella foliacea (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella germaini (Tixier-Durivault, 1943)
- Species Cladiella globulifera (Klunzinger, 1877)
- Species Cladiella globuliferoides (Thomson & Dean, 1931)
- Species Cladiella gracilis (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella hartogi Benayahu & Chou, 2010
- Species Cladiella hicksoni (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella hirsuta Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Cladiella humesi Verseveldt, 1974
- Species Cladiella irregularis (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella kashmani Benayahu & Schleyer, 1996
- Species Cladiella klunzingeri (Thomson & Simpson, 1909)
- Species Cladiella krempfi (Hickson, 1919)
- Species Cladiella kuekenthali (Tixier-Durivault, 1942)
- Species Cladiella laciniosa (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella latissima (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella letourneuxi (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella lineata (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella madagascarensis (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella michelini (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella minuta (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella multiloba Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Cladiella pachyclados (Klunzinger, 1877)
- Species Cladiella papillosa (Tixier-Durivault, 1942)
- Species Cladiella prattae (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella pulchra (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella ramosa Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Cladiella rotundata Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Cladiella scabra Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Cladiella similis (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella sphaeroides (Utinomi, 1953)
- Species Cladiella sphaerophora (Ehrenberg, 1834)
- Species Cladiella steineri Verseveldt, 1982
- Species Cladiella studeri (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella subtilis Tixier-Durivault, 1970
- Species Cladiella suezensis (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella tenuis (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella thomsoni (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella tuberculoides (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella tuberculosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
- Species Cladiella tuberosa (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella tulearensis (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella variabilis (Tixier-Durivault, 1944)
- Species Cladiella digitulatum (Klunzinger, 1877) accepted as Cladiella digitulata (Klunzinger, 1877) (variant spelling)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
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): 125 [details]
page(s): 125 [details]
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Cladiella Gray, 1869. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205863 on 2025-04-02
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Nomenclature
original description
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): 125 [details]
original description (of Lobularia Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome second, 566 pp. Paris, Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698
page(s): 412-413 [details]
original description (of Microspicularia Macfadyen, 1936) Macfadyen, L.M.I. (1936). Alcyonaria (Stolonifera, Alcyonacea, Telestacea and Gorgonacea). <em>Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929, Scientific Reports.</em> 5(2): 19-71, plates 1-5.
page(s): 28-29 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Sphaerella 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): 122 [details]
basis of record Verseveldt, J. (1976). Alcyonacea from the Seychelles (Coelenterata Octocorallia). <em>Revue Zoologique Africaine.</em> 90(3): 497-513. [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 125 [details]
original description (of Lobularia Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome second, 566 pp. Paris, Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698
page(s): 412-413 [details]
original description (of Microspicularia Macfadyen, 1936) Macfadyen, L.M.I. (1936). Alcyonaria (Stolonifera, Alcyonacea, Telestacea and Gorgonacea). <em>Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929, Scientific Reports.</em> 5(2): 19-71, plates 1-5.
page(s): 28-29 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Sphaerella 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): 122 [details]
basis of record Verseveldt, J. (1976). Alcyonacea from the Seychelles (Coelenterata Octocorallia). <em>Revue Zoologique Africaine.</em> 90(3): 497-513. [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
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): 52 [details]
page(s): 52 [details]
Other
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, 375, 382, 399 [details] Available for editors [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): 3 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Alderslade, P. (2003). A new genus and species of soft coral (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae) from Lord Howe Island, Australia. <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen.</em> 345: 19-30., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/220290
page(s): 20 [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): 12 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Williams, G.C. (1988). Four new species of southern African octocorals (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea), with a further diagnostic revision of the genus Alcyonium Linnaeus, 1758. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 92: 1-26.
page(s): 7 [details] Available for editors [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): 348, 351 [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 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 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. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville.</em> pp. 264.
page(s): iv, 23, 41, 45, 46, 49, 78, 84-85, 86 [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 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 [details]
additional source Tanaka, J.; Yoshida, T.; Benayahu, Y. (2005). Chemical diversity of Sarcophyton soft corals in Okinawa. Galaxea, 7, 1-9
page(s): 7 [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): 84 [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 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]
subsequent type designation Utinomi, H. (1959). Fleshy alcyonarians from southern Formosa. <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 7(3): 303-312.
page(s): 311 [details]
page(s): 366, 375, 382, 399 [details] Available for editors
[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): 3 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Alderslade, P. (2003). A new genus and species of soft coral (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae) from Lord Howe Island, Australia. <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen.</em> 345: 19-30., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/220290
page(s): 20 [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): 12 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Williams, G.C. (1988). Four new species of southern African octocorals (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea), with a further diagnostic revision of the genus Alcyonium Linnaeus, 1758. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 92: 1-26.
page(s): 7 [details] Available for editors
[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): 348, 351 [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 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 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. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville.</em> pp. 264.
page(s): iv, 23, 41, 45, 46, 49, 78, 84-85, 86 [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 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 [details]
additional source Tanaka, J.; Yoshida, T.; Benayahu, Y. (2005). Chemical diversity of Sarcophyton soft corals in Okinawa. Galaxea, 7, 1-9
page(s): 7 [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): 84 [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 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]
subsequent type designation Utinomi, H. (1959). Fleshy alcyonarians from southern Formosa. <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 7(3): 303-312.
page(s): 311 [details]
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