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Sinularia flexibilis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
288521 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:288521)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Alcyonium flexibile Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1833). Zoologie IV: Zoophytes. In:Zoologie. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe : exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829 / sous le commandement de J. Dumont d'Urville. pp. 1-390. Paris, J. Tastu., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2064339
page(s): 279, pl. 23; note: genus name rendered as Alcyonum [details]
page(s): 279, pl. 23; note: genus name rendered as Alcyonum [details]
Holotype MNHN, geounit Solomon Islands Exclusive...
Holotype MNHN, geounit Solomon Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2024). World List of Octocorallia. Sinularia flexibilis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=288521 on 2024-08-16
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(of Alcyonium flexibile Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1833). Zoologie IV: Zoophytes. In:Zoologie. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe : exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829 / sous le commandement de J. Dumont d'Urville. pp. 1-390. Paris, J. Tastu., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2064339
page(s): 279, pl. 23; note: genus name rendered as Alcyonum [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record van Ofwegen, L.P., S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds). (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Benayahu, Y. (1995). Species composition of soft corals (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) on the coral reefs of Sesoko Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. <em>Galaxea.</em> 12: 103–124.
page(s): 107, 119 [details]
additional source Benayahu, Y. (2002). Soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) of the southern Ryukyu Archipelago: The families Tubiporidae, Clavulariidae, Alcyoniidae and Briareidae. <em>Journal of the Japanese Coral Reef Society.</em> 2002(4): 11-32., available online at https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jcrs1999/2002/4/2002_4_11/_article/-char/en
page(s): 14, 18 [details]
additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1970). Les octocoralliaires de Nha-Trang (Viet-Nam). <em>Cahiers du Pacifique.</em> 14: 115-236.
page(s): 168-169 [details]
additional source Benayahu, Y. (1998). Lobe variation in Sinularia nanolobata Verseveldt, 1977 (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea). <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 63(1): 229-240.
page(s): 229 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source van Ofwegen, L.P.; Vennam, J. (1994). Results of the Rumphius Biohistorical Expedition to Ambon (1990). Part 3. The Alcyoniidae (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea). <em>Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden.</em> 68(14): 135-158.
page(s): 139-144 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Verseveldt, J. (1977). Octocorallia from various localities in the Pacific Ocean. <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden.</em> 150: 1-42, plates 1-10.
page(s): 3, 32, 37 [details]
additional source Verseveldt, J. (1974). Octocorallia from New Caledonia. <em>Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden.</em> 48(12): 95-122, plates 1-5.
page(s): 95 [details]
additional source Verseveldt, J. (1980). A revision of the genus Sinularia May (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden.</em> 179: 1-128, plates1-38.
page(s): 54-56 [details]
additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1945). Les Alcyonaires du Museum: 1. Famille des Alcyoniidae. 2. Genre Sinularia (Suite). <em>Bulletin de la Museum Nationale d'Histoire naturelle Paris, Ser. 2.</em> 17(3): 243-250., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53908022
page(s): 249-250 [details]
additional source Alderslade, P.; Baxter, J. (1987). A new species of Sinularia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from Western Australia. <em>Records of the Western Australian Museum.</em> 13(2): 203-214.
page(s): 203 [details]
additional source Roxas, H.A. (1933). Philippine Alcyonaria, II. The families Alcyoniidae and Nephthyidae. <em>The Philippine Journal of Science.</em> 50(4): 345-470, plates 1-5.
page(s): 351-352 [details]
additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1951). Revision de la famille des Alcyoniidae. Le genre Sinularia May, 1898. <em>Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Memoires.</em> 2(40): 1-146.
page(s): 137-142 [details]
additional source Verseveldt, J. (1960). Biological results of the Snellius expedition. XX. Octocorallia from the Malay Archipelago (Part I). <em>Temminckia.</em> 10: 209-251, plate 7.
page(s): 239-240 [details]
additional source Utinomi, H. (1956). On some alcyonarians from the West-Pacific islands (Palau, Ponape and Bonins). <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 5(2): 221-242.
page(s): 227 [details]
additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1970). Les Octocoralliaires de Nouvelle-Calédonie. <em>L'Expédition française sur les récifs coralliens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie organisée sous l'égide de la fondation Singer-Polignac 1960-1963.</em> 4: 171-350.
page(s): 293-294 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source 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): 34 [details]
additional source Kolonko, K. (1926). Beitrage zu einer Revision der Alcyoniiden. Die Gattung Sinularia. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin.</em> 12(2): 293-334, plates 1-4.
page(s): 310-312 [details]
additional source Imahara, Y. (1991). Report on the Octocorallia from the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. <em>Bull. Inst. Oceanic Res. & Develop., Tokai Univ.</em> 11/12: 59-94.
page(s): 70 [details]
additional source van Ofwegen, L.P. (1996). Octocorallia from the Bismarck Sea (part II). <em>Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden.</em> 70(13): 207-215.
page(s): 208 [details]
additional source Thomson, J.A.; Dean, L.M.I. (1931). The Alcyonacea of the Siboga expedition with an addendum to the Gorgonacea. <em>Siboga Expeditie.</em> XIIId: 1-227, plates 1-28.
page(s): 53 [details]
additional source Hickson, S.J. (1930). Some Alcyonarians from the Eastern Pacific Ocean. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1930(14): 209-227, plates 1-3.
page(s): 222 [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): 5, 18, 26, 29, 32, 45, 46 [details]
additional source Benayahu, Y.; Jeng, M. S.; Perkol-Finkel, S.; Dai, C. F. (2004). Soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from southern Taiwan. II. Species diversity and distributional patterns. Zoological Studies, 43(3): 548-560
page(s): 551, 552, 555 [details]
additional source Bastidas, C.; Benzie, J. A. H.; Uthicke, S.; Fabricius, K. (2001). Genetic differentiation among populations of a broadcast spawning soft coral, Sinularia flexibilis, on the Great Barrier Reef. Marine Biology, 138
page(s): 517-524 [details]
additional source Imahara, Y. (1996). Previously recorded octocorals from Japan and adjacent seas. Precious Corals and Octocoral Research, 4-mei, 17-44
page(s): 22 [details]
additional source Bastidas, C.; Fabricius, K.; Willis, B. L. (2004). Demographic aspects of the soft coral Sinularia flexibilis leading to local dominance on coral reefs. Hydrobiologia, 530/531, 433-441
page(s): 433-440 [details]
page(s): 279, pl. 23; note: genus name rendered as Alcyonum [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record van Ofwegen, L.P., S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds). (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
additional source Benayahu, Y. (1995). Species composition of soft corals (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) on the coral reefs of Sesoko Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. <em>Galaxea.</em> 12: 103–124.
page(s): 107, 119 [details]
additional source Benayahu, Y. (2002). Soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) of the southern Ryukyu Archipelago: The families Tubiporidae, Clavulariidae, Alcyoniidae and Briareidae. <em>Journal of the Japanese Coral Reef Society.</em> 2002(4): 11-32., available online at https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jcrs1999/2002/4/2002_4_11/_article/-char/en
page(s): 14, 18 [details]
additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1970). Les octocoralliaires de Nha-Trang (Viet-Nam). <em>Cahiers du Pacifique.</em> 14: 115-236.
page(s): 168-169 [details]
additional source Benayahu, Y. (1998). Lobe variation in Sinularia nanolobata Verseveldt, 1977 (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea). <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 63(1): 229-240.
page(s): 229 [details] Available for editors
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
additional source van Ofwegen, L.P.; Vennam, J. (1994). Results of the Rumphius Biohistorical Expedition to Ambon (1990). Part 3. The Alcyoniidae (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea). <em>Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden.</em> 68(14): 135-158.
page(s): 139-144 [details] Available for editors
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
additional source Verseveldt, J. (1977). Octocorallia from various localities in the Pacific Ocean. <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden.</em> 150: 1-42, plates 1-10.
page(s): 3, 32, 37 [details]
additional source Verseveldt, J. (1974). Octocorallia from New Caledonia. <em>Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden.</em> 48(12): 95-122, plates 1-5.
page(s): 95 [details]
additional source Verseveldt, J. (1980). A revision of the genus Sinularia May (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden.</em> 179: 1-128, plates1-38.
page(s): 54-56 [details]
additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1945). Les Alcyonaires du Museum: 1. Famille des Alcyoniidae. 2. Genre Sinularia (Suite). <em>Bulletin de la Museum Nationale d'Histoire naturelle Paris, Ser. 2.</em> 17(3): 243-250., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53908022
page(s): 249-250 [details]
additional source Alderslade, P.; Baxter, J. (1987). A new species of Sinularia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from Western Australia. <em>Records of the Western Australian Museum.</em> 13(2): 203-214.
page(s): 203 [details]
additional source Roxas, H.A. (1933). Philippine Alcyonaria, II. The families Alcyoniidae and Nephthyidae. <em>The Philippine Journal of Science.</em> 50(4): 345-470, plates 1-5.
page(s): 351-352 [details]
additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1951). Revision de la famille des Alcyoniidae. Le genre Sinularia May, 1898. <em>Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Memoires.</em> 2(40): 1-146.
page(s): 137-142 [details]
additional source Verseveldt, J. (1960). Biological results of the Snellius expedition. XX. Octocorallia from the Malay Archipelago (Part I). <em>Temminckia.</em> 10: 209-251, plate 7.
page(s): 239-240 [details]
additional source Utinomi, H. (1956). On some alcyonarians from the West-Pacific islands (Palau, Ponape and Bonins). <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 5(2): 221-242.
page(s): 227 [details]
additional source Tixier-Durivault, A. (1970). Les Octocoralliaires de Nouvelle-Calédonie. <em>L'Expédition française sur les récifs coralliens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie organisée sous l'égide de la fondation Singer-Polignac 1960-1963.</em> 4: 171-350.
page(s): 293-294 [details] Available for editors
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
additional source 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): 34 [details]
additional source Kolonko, K. (1926). Beitrage zu einer Revision der Alcyoniiden. Die Gattung Sinularia. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin.</em> 12(2): 293-334, plates 1-4.
page(s): 310-312 [details]
additional source Imahara, Y. (1991). Report on the Octocorallia from the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. <em>Bull. Inst. Oceanic Res. & Develop., Tokai Univ.</em> 11/12: 59-94.
page(s): 70 [details]
additional source van Ofwegen, L.P. (1996). Octocorallia from the Bismarck Sea (part II). <em>Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden.</em> 70(13): 207-215.
page(s): 208 [details]
additional source Thomson, J.A.; Dean, L.M.I. (1931). The Alcyonacea of the Siboga expedition with an addendum to the Gorgonacea. <em>Siboga Expeditie.</em> XIIId: 1-227, plates 1-28.
page(s): 53 [details]
additional source Hickson, S.J. (1930). Some Alcyonarians from the Eastern Pacific Ocean. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1930(14): 209-227, plates 1-3.
page(s): 222 [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): 5, 18, 26, 29, 32, 45, 46 [details]
additional source Benayahu, Y.; Jeng, M. S.; Perkol-Finkel, S.; Dai, C. F. (2004). Soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from southern Taiwan. II. Species diversity and distributional patterns. Zoological Studies, 43(3): 548-560
page(s): 551, 552, 555 [details]
additional source Bastidas, C.; Benzie, J. A. H.; Uthicke, S.; Fabricius, K. (2001). Genetic differentiation among populations of a broadcast spawning soft coral, Sinularia flexibilis, on the Great Barrier Reef. Marine Biology, 138
page(s): 517-524 [details]
additional source Imahara, Y. (1996). Previously recorded octocorals from Japan and adjacent seas. Precious Corals and Octocoral Research, 4-mei, 17-44
page(s): 22 [details]
additional source Bastidas, C.; Fabricius, K.; Willis, B. L. (2004). Demographic aspects of the soft coral Sinularia flexibilis leading to local dominance on coral reefs. Hydrobiologia, 530/531, 433-441
page(s): 433-440 [details]
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Holotype MNHN, geounit Solomon Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype MNHN, geounit Vietnamese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype RMNH, geounit New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 28399, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 28400, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 28628, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 28923, geounit Taiwanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 28927, geounit Chinese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 30191, geounit Chinese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 30209, geounit Chinese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype ZMTAU Co 30262, geounit Chinese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Language | Name | |
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English | spaghetti finger leather coralslimy leather coralflexible leather coral | [details] |
German | Spaghettikoralle | [details] |
Japanese | ヤナギカタトサカ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sinularia flexibilis)
To Fishipedia
To GenBank (56 nucleotides; 79 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (2 records)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sinularia flexibilis)
To Fishipedia
To GenBank (56 nucleotides; 79 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (2 records)