North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

WoRMS taxon details

Paralcyonium spinulosum (Delle Chiaje, 1822)

AphiaID

125421 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125421)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Paralcyonium Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850

Original name

Lobularia spinulosa Delle Chiaje, 1822

Synonymised names

Lobularia spinulosa Delle Chiaje, 1822 · unaccepted > superseded combination (original combination)

Paralcyonium elegans Milne Edwards, 1857 · unaccepted (synonym)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Lobularia spinulosa Delle Chiaje, 1822) Delle Chiaje, S. (1828). Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del regno di Napoli / di Stefano delle Chiaje. Stamperia della societa tipografica, Napoli. vol. 3: xx + 232, pls. 32-49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10664474
page(s): 49, pl. 32 [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Paralcyonium spinulosum (Delle Chiaje, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125421 on 2025-03-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van Ofwegen, Leen

2018-03-22 16:48:14Z

changed

Cordeiro, Ralf

Licensing

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

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Nomenclature

original description (of Lobularia spinulosa Delle Chiaje, 1822) Delle Chiaje, S. (1828). Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del regno di Napoli / di Stefano delle Chiaje. Stamperia della societa tipografica, Napoli. vol. 3: xx + 232, pls. 32-49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10664474
page(s): 49, pl. 32 [details]

original description (of Paralcyonium elegans Milne Edwards, 1857) Milne Edwards H,. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits. 1. Librairie EncyclopÃ©dique de Roret, Paris. 326 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12045211
page(s): 130 [details]

basis of record van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 104-105 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Other

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

additional source Watling, L.; Auster, P. (2005). Distribution of deep-water Alcyonacea off the Northeast Coast of the United States. In: Freiwald, A., R.J. Murray, editors. Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems. Proceedings of the Second Deep-Sea Coral Symposium. 279-296. [details]

additional source van Ofwegen, L.P.; Benayahu, Y. (2006). A new genus of paralcyoniid soft corals (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea, Paralcyoniidae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Journal of the Japanese Coral Reef Society. 8(1): 25-37., available online at https://doi.org/10.3755/jcrs.8.25
page(s): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 [details]

additional source Weinberg, S. (1977). Revision of the common Octocorallia of the Mediterranean circalittoral II. Alcyonacea. Beaufortia. 25(326): 131-166., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/505058
page(s): 156-163 [details]

additional source Weinberg, S. (1978). Revision of the common Octocorallia of the Mediterranean circalittoral. III. Stolonifera. Beaufortia. 27(338): 139-176.
page(s): 140 [details]

additional source Weinberg, S. (1978). Mediterranean octocorallian communities and the abiotic environment. Marine Biology, 49, 41-57
page(s): 42 [details]