African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Sansibia Alderslade, 2000

AphiaID

267824 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267824)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Xeniidae Ehrenberg, 1828

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Species Sansibia flava (May, 1898)

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Alderslade, P. (2000). Four new genera of soft corals (Coelenterata: Octocorallia), with notes on the classification of some established taxa. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden. 74: 237-249. [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Sansibia Alderslade, 2000. 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=267824 on 2026-07-10

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. Sansibia Alderslade, 2000. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267824 on 2026-07-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-14 11:18:07Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2010-09-16 09:11:12Z

changed

van Ofwegen, Leen

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original description Alderslade, P. (2000). Four new genera of soft corals (Coelenterata: Octocorallia), with notes on the classification of some established taxa. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden. 74: 237-249. [details] Available for editors

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

basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]

additional source Alderslade, P.; McFadden, C. S. (2007). Pinnule-less polyps: a new genus and new species of Indo-Pacific Clavulariidae and validation of the soft coral genus Acrossota and the family Acrossotidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Zootaxa. 1400: 27–44., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1400.2
page(s): 35 [details] Available for editors

additional source Alderslade, P. (2001). Six new genera and six new species of soft coral, and some proposed familial and subfamilial changes within the Alcyonacea. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington. 10:15-65.
page(s): 60, 63 [details] Available for editors

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. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville. pp. 264.
page(s): iv, 13, 45, 46, 54, 66, 69, 76, 150-151, 152 [details]

redescription Benayahu, Y.; Ekins, M.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Samimi-Namin, K.; McFadden, C.S. (2022). On some encrusting Xeniidae (Octocorallia): re-examination of the type material of Sansibia flava (May, 1898) and a description of new taxa. Zootaxa. 5093(4): 421-444., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/801005/Benayahu-2022-On-some-encrusting-Xeniidae-A.pdf [details] Available for editors

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