WoRMS taxon details
Corallium Cuvier, 1798
125325 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125325)
accepted
Genus
Madrepora corallium Cuvier, 1798 · unaccepted > unavailable name
Paracorallium Bayer & Cairns, 2003 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Corallium japonicum Kishinouye, 1903
- Species Corallium medea Bayer, 1964
- Species Corallium nix Bayer, 1996
- Species Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Corallium salomonense (Thomson & Mackinnon, 1910)
- Species Corallium sepultum Sismonda, 1847 †
- Species Corallium stylasteroides Ridley, 1882
- Species Corallium sulcatum Michelotti, 1871 †
- Species Corallium tortuosum Bayer, 1956
- Species Corallium abyssale Bayer, 1956 accepted as Hemicorallium abyssale (Bayer, 1956) (original combination)
- Species Corallium anglicum J.Ellis, 1768 accepted as Phymatolithon calcareum (Pallas) W.H.Adey & D.L.McKibbin ex Woelkering & L.M.Irvine, 1986 (synonym, nom. inval.)
- Species Corallium bathyrubrum Simpson & Watling, 2011 accepted as Hemicorallium bathyrubrum (Simpson & Watling, 2011) (original combination)
- Species Corallium bayeri Simpson & Watling, 2011 accepted as Hemicorallium bayeri (Simpson & Watling, 2011) (original combination)
- Species Corallium borneense Bayer, 1950 accepted as Pleurocorallium borneense (Bayer, 1950) (original combination)
- Species Corallium boshuensis Kishinouye, 1903 accepted as Hemicorallium boshuense (Kishinouye, 1903) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Corallium carusrubrum Tu, Dai & Jeng, 2012 accepted as Pleurocorallium carusrubrum (Tu, Dai & Jeng, 2012) (original combination)
- Species Corallium cretaceum Ellis, 1755 accepted as Millepora lichenoides (J.Ellis) J.Ellis & Solander, 1786 accepted as Mesophyllum lichenoides (J.Ellis) Me.Lemoine, 1928 (synonym, transferred to Rhodophyta)
- Species Corallium ducale Bayer, 1955 accepted as Hemicorallium ducale (Bayer, 1955) (original combination)
- Species Corallium elatior Ridley, 1882 accepted as Corallium elatius Ridley, 1882 accepted as Pleurocorallium elatius (Ridley, 1882) (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Species Corallium elatius Ridley, 1882 accepted as Pleurocorallium elatius (Ridley, 1882) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Corallium gotoense Nonaka, Muzik & Iwasaki, 2012 accepted as Pleurocorallium gotoense (Nonaka, Muzik & Iwasaki, 2012) (original combination)
- Species Corallium halmaheirense Hickson, 1907 accepted as Hemicorallium halmaheirense (Hickson, 1907) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Corallium imperiale Bayer, 1955 accepted as Hemicorallium imperiale (Bayer, 1955) (original combination)
- Species Corallium inutile Kishinouye, 1903 accepted as Pleurocorallium inutile (Kishinouye, 1903) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Corallium johnsoni Gray, 1860 accepted as Pleurocorallium johnsoni (Gray, 1860) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Corallium kishinouyei Bayer, 1996 accepted as Pleurocorallium porcellanum (Pasternak, 1981) (synonym)
- Species Corallium konojoi Kishinouye, 1903 accepted as Pleurocorallium konojoi (Kishinouye, 1903) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Corallium laauense Bayer, 1956 accepted as Hemicorallium laauense (Bayer, 1956) (original combination)
- Species Corallium lichenoides J.Ellis, 1768 accepted as Mesophyllum lichenoides (J.Ellis) Me.Lemoine, 1928 (original combination, transferred to Rhodophyta)
- Species Corallium maderense (Johnson, 1899) accepted as Hemicorallium maderense (Johnson, 1898) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Corallium niobe Bayer, 1964 accepted as Hemicorallium niobe (Bayer, 1964) (original combination)
- Species Corallium niveum Bayer, 1956 accepted as Pleurocorallium niveum (Bayer, 1956) (original combination)
- Species Corallium nobile (Pallas, 1766) accepted as Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Corallium occultum Tu, Altuna & Jeng, 2015 accepted as Pleurocorallium occultum (Tu, Altuna & Jeng, 2015) (original combination)
- Species Corallium porcellanum Pasternak, 1981 accepted as Pleurocorallium porcellanum (Pasternak, 1981) (original combination)
- Species Corallium pusillum Kishinouye, 1903 accepted as Pleurocorallium pusillum (Kishinouye, 1903) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Corallium regale Bayer, 1956 accepted as Hemicorallium regale (Bayer, 1956) (original combination)
- Species Corallium reginae Hickson, 1905 accepted as Hemicorallium reginae (Hickson, 1905) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Corallium reginae Hickson & Versluys, 1907 accepted as Corallium reginae Hickson, 1905 accepted as Hemicorallium reginae (Hickson, 1905) (incorrect authority)
- Species Corallium secundum Dana, 1846 accepted as Pleurocorallium secundum (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Corallium sulcatum Kishinouye, 1903 accepted as Hemicorallium sulcatum (Kishinouye, 1903) (unaccepted > superseded combination, original combination)
- Species Corallium taiwanicum Tu, Dai & Jeng, 2012 accepted as Hemicorallium taiwanicum (Tu, Dai & Jeng, 2012) (original combination)
- Species Corallium thrinax Bayer & Stefani in Bayer, 1996 accepted as Pleurocorallium thrinax (Bayer & Stefani in Bayer, 1996) (original combination)
- Species Corallium tricolor (Johnson, 1899) accepted as Hemicorallium tricolor (Johnson, 1899) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Corallium uchidai Nonaka, Muzik & Iwasaki, 2012 accepted as Pleurocorallium uchidai (Nonaka, Muzik & Iwasaki, 2012) (original combination)
- Species Corallium vanderbilti Boone, 1933 accepted as Diodogorgia nodulifera (Hargitt in Hargitt & Rogers, 1901) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Corallium variabile (Thomson & Henderson, 1906) accepted as Hemicorallium variabile (Thomson & Henderson, 1906) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, terrestrial
Cuvier, G. (1797). Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux. [Elementary table of the natural history of animals.]. <em>Baudoin, Paris.</em> i-xvi, 1-710, Pl. 1-14. [pdf is for copepods :449-456]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11637076
page(s): 673 [details]
page(s): 673 [details]
WoRMS (2025). Corallium Cuvier, 1798. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125325 on 2025-04-23
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Nomenclature
original description
Cuvier, G. (1797). Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux. [Elementary table of the natural history of animals.]. <em>Baudoin, Paris.</em> i-xvi, 1-710, Pl. 1-14. [pdf is for copepods :449-456]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11637076
page(s): 673 [details]
original description (of Paracorallium Bayer & Cairns, 2003) Bayer, F.M. & S.D. Cairns. (2003). A new genus of the scleraxonian family Coralliidae (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 118: 222-228., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34565090 [details] Available for editors
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basis of record van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 104-105 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 673 [details]
original description (of Paracorallium Bayer & Cairns, 2003) Bayer, F.M. & S.D. Cairns. (2003). A new genus of the scleraxonian family Coralliidae (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 118: 222-228., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34565090 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 104-105 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
Bayer, F. M.; Stefani, J. (1987). New and previously known taxa of isidid octocorals (Coelenterata:Gorgonacea), partly from antarctic waters. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 100(4): 937-991.
page(s): 987 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors [request]
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. <em>Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 10:15-65.
page(s): 63 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 47-48 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sánchez, J. A. (2005). Systematics of the bubblegum corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Paragorgiidae) with description of new species from New Zealand and the Eastern Pacific. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1014(1): 1–72.
page(s): 5, 6, 29, 30 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D. & F.M. Bayer. (2005). A review of the genus Primnoa (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea: Primnoidae), with the description of two new species. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 77(2), 225-256.
page(s): 239 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bayer, F.M. (1961). The shallow-water Octocorallia of the West Indian region. A manual for marine biologists. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and Other Caribbean Islands.</em> 12:1-373, pls. 1-23., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506065
page(s): 16, 21, 318, 349 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bayer, F. M. (1993). Two new species of the gorgonacean genus Paragorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). <em>Precious Corals & Octocoral Research.</em> 2: 1-10.
page(s): 3, 4, 5 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Figueroa, D. F.; Baco, A. R. (2014). Complete mitochondrial genomes elucidate phylogenetic relationships of the deep-sea octocoral families Coralliidae and Paragorgiidae. <em>Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography.</em> 99: 83-91., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064513002312 [details]
additional source Utinomi, H. (1957). Minabea ozakii n. gen. et n. sp., a new remarkable alcyonarian type with dimorphic polyps. <em>Jour. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ. Ser. VI, Zool.</em> 13: 139-146.
page(s): 144 [details]
additional source Bayer, F. M. (1956). Descriptions and redescriptions of the Hawaiian octocorals collected by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross" (2. Gorgonacea: Scleraxonia). <em>Pacific Science.</em> 10: 67-95., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54298526 [details] Available for editors [request]
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): 216 [details]
additional source Grasshoff, M.; Bargibant, G. (2001). Coral Reef Gorgonians of New Caledonia. IRD Èditions. Paris., pp. 335.
page(s): 64, 65, 316, 317 [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): 15 [details]
additional source Hickson, S. J. (1930). On the classification of the Alcyonaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, XIV, 229-252
page(s): 243, 245, 247 [details]
additional source Grigg, R. W. & F.M. Bayer. (1976). Present knowledge of the systematics and zoogeography of the order Gorgonacea in Hawaii. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 30(2): 167-175.
page(s): 168 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 987 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors
[request]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. <em>Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 10:15-65.
page(s): 63 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kükenthal, W. (1924). Coelenterata: Gorgonaria. in: Das Tierreich (Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen). 47. 478 pp.
page(s): 47-48 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sánchez, J. A. (2005). Systematics of the bubblegum corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Paragorgiidae) with description of new species from New Zealand and the Eastern Pacific. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1014(1): 1–72.
page(s): 5, 6, 29, 30 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D. & F.M. Bayer. (2005). A review of the genus Primnoa (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea: Primnoidae), with the description of two new species. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 77(2), 225-256.
page(s): 239 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bayer, F.M. (1961). The shallow-water Octocorallia of the West Indian region. A manual for marine biologists. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and Other Caribbean Islands.</em> 12:1-373, pls. 1-23., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506065
page(s): 16, 21, 318, 349 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bayer, F. M. (1993). Two new species of the gorgonacean genus Paragorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). <em>Precious Corals & Octocoral Research.</em> 2: 1-10.
page(s): 3, 4, 5 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Figueroa, D. F.; Baco, A. R. (2014). Complete mitochondrial genomes elucidate phylogenetic relationships of the deep-sea octocoral families Coralliidae and Paragorgiidae. <em>Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography.</em> 99: 83-91., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064513002312 [details]
additional source Utinomi, H. (1957). Minabea ozakii n. gen. et n. sp., a new remarkable alcyonarian type with dimorphic polyps. <em>Jour. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ. Ser. VI, Zool.</em> 13: 139-146.
page(s): 144 [details]
additional source Bayer, F. M. (1956). Descriptions and redescriptions of the Hawaiian octocorals collected by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross" (2. Gorgonacea: Scleraxonia). <em>Pacific Science.</em> 10: 67-95., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54298526 [details] Available for editors
[request]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): 216 [details]
additional source Grasshoff, M.; Bargibant, G. (2001). Coral Reef Gorgonians of New Caledonia. IRD Èditions. Paris., pp. 335.
page(s): 64, 65, 316, 317 [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): 15 [details]
additional source Hickson, S. J. (1930). On the classification of the Alcyonaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, XIV, 229-252
page(s): 243, 245, 247 [details]
additional source Grigg, R. W. & F.M. Bayer. (1976). Present knowledge of the systematics and zoogeography of the order Gorgonacea in Hawaii. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 30(2): 167-175.
page(s): 168 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | サンゴ属アカサンゴ属 [from synonym] | [details] |
Published in AlgaeBase 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Paracorallium Bayer & Cairns, 2003)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Corallium)
To Genbank (from synonym Paracorallium Bayer & Cairns, 2003)
To Genbank
To ITIS
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Paracorallium Bayer & Cairns, 2003)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Corallium)
To Genbank (from synonym Paracorallium Bayer & Cairns, 2003)
To Genbank
To ITIS
