WoRMS name details

Eleutherobia lutea Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995

517711  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:517711)

 unaccepted (incorrect species name)
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Eleutherobia aurea Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995) Benayahu, Y.; Schleyer, M.H. (1995). Corals of the south-west Indian Ocean. II. Eleutherobia aurea spec. nov. (Cnidaria, Alcyonacea) from the deep reefs of the KwaZulu-Natal coast, South Africa. <em>Invest. Rep. Oceanogr. Res. Inst.</em> 68: 1-12. [details] 
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Eleutherobia lutea Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=517711 on 2025-03-29
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Nomenclature

original description (of Eleutherobia aurea Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995) Benayahu, Y.; Schleyer, M.H. (1995). Corals of the south-west Indian Ocean. II. Eleutherobia aurea spec. nov. (Cnidaria, Alcyonacea) from the deep reefs of the KwaZulu-Natal coast, South Africa. <em>Invest. Rep. Oceanogr. Res. Inst.</em> 68: 1-12. [details] 

basis of record Williams, G. C. (2000). A new species of the soft coral genus Eleutherobia Pütter, 1900 (Coelenterata: Alcyoniidae) from the Tonga Islands. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 52(13): 159-169.
page(s): 159; note: the use of the name Eleutherobia lutea appears to be an error, and should refer to Eleutherobia aurea Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995 [details] 

Other

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