African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS name details

Simpsonella Stiasny, 1940

AphiaID

204520 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204520)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior homonym (of Simpsonella Cockerell, 1903)

Accepted name

Helicogorgia Bayer, 1981

Rank

Genus

Parent

Octocorallia incertae sedis

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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 superseded combination)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 superseded combination)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 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 superseded combination)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 superseded combination)

Environment

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

Original description

Stiasny, G. (1940). Alcyonaria und Gorgonaria von Südafrika aus der Sammlung des South African Museum Capetown. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlansche Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling Natuurkunde, Tweede Sectie. 39(3): 1-39, plates 1-4.
page(s): 31 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Simpsonella Stiasny, 1940. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204520 on 2026-08-04

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Simpsonella Stiasny, 1940. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204520 on 2026-08-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-12-05 23:00:00Z

created

Osore, Kizzie

2005-06-01 21:18:29Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-09-16 09:11:12Z

changed

van Ofwegen, Leen

2022-04-01 18:44:00Z

changed

McFadden, Cathy

2022-11-03 00:23:34Z

changed

McFadden, Cathy

2024-06-17 22:36:52Z

changed

McFadden, Cathy

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Sources (5)

original description Stiasny, G. (1940). Alcyonaria und Gorgonaria von Südafrika aus der Sammlung des South African Museum Capetown. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlansche Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling Natuurkunde, Tweede Sectie. 39(3): 1-39, plates 1-4.
page(s): 31 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Williams, G.C. (1992). Biogeography of the octocorallian coelenterate fauna of southern Africa. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 46: 351-401. [details] Available for editors

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. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 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. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 101: 257-279.
page(s): 258 [details] Available for editors

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]