African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Parasphaerasclera aurea (Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995)

WoRMS taxon details

Parasphaerasclera aurea (Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995)

AphiaID

743780 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:743780)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Parasphaerasclera McFadden & van Ofwegen, 2013

Orig. name

Eleutherobia aurea Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995

Synonymised names

Eleutherobia aurea Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995 · unaccepted > superseded combination (original combination)

Eleutherobia lutea Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995 · unaccepted (incorrect species name)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

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. Invest. Rep. Oceanogr. Res. Inst. 68: 1-12. [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2024). World List of Octocorallia. Parasphaerasclera aurea (Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=743780 on 2024-06-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2013-11-05 14:55:22Z

created

van Ofwegen, Leen

Licensing

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

[taxonomic tree]

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. Invest. Rep. Oceanogr. Res. Inst. 68: 1-12. [details]

new combination reference McFadden, C.S.; van Ofwegen, L.P. (2013). Molecular phylogenetic evidence supports a new family of octocorals and a new genus of Alcyoniidae (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). Zookeys. 346: 59-83.
page(s): 70 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Eleutherobia aurea Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Parasphaerasclera aurea)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Eleutherobia aurea Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 7 proteins)