Published Octocoral Papers

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Taxonomy

Hickson, S.J. 1931. The alcyonarian family Xeniidae, with a revision of the genera and Species

1967. The Octocorallia collected by R / V "Vema" in the Atlantic Ocean

Verseveldt, J. 1971. Octocorallia from North-Western Madagascar (Part II)

Verseveldt, J. 1974. Octocorallia from New Caledonia

Verseveldt, J. 1977. Octocorallia from various localities in the Pacific Ocean

Verseveldt, J. 1977. On two new Sinularia species (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from the Moluccas

Verseveldt, J. 1977. Australian Octocorallia (Coelenterata)
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Verseveldt, J. 1978. Alcyonaceans (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from some Micronesian Islands

Verseveldt, J. 1978. On some Telestacea and Alcyonacea (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from the West Indian region

Verseveldt, J. & Benayahu, Y. 1978. Descriptions of one old and five new species of Alcyonacea (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from the Red Sea

Verseveldt, J. 1979. Octocorallia from the Bismarck Sea (Part I)

Verseveldt, J. 1980. A revision of the genus Sinularia May (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) * with Sinularia Key (40 meg file). Divided into 2 download parts, 20 meg each part. Pt 1, 2

Chupu, L. 1982. Studies the Alcyonacea of the South China Sea I. Alcyonacea from Yalong Bay

Chupu, L. 1982. Two new species of Alcyonacea from South China Sea

Verseveldt, J. 1982. A revision of the genus Sarcophyton Lesson (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) *with Sarcophyton Key (29 meg file size)

Verseveldt, J. & Alderslade, P. 1982. Descriptions of types and other Alcyonacean material (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) in the Australian Museum, Sydney

Verseveldt, J. 1983. A revision of the genus Lobophytum von Marenzeller (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) *with Lobophytum Key (45 meg file size)

Chupu, L. 1986. A new species of Nephthyidae

Chupu, L. 1986. Soft Corals in Hong Kong Waters

Huang Z. R. and Xiangzhen, B. W. 1990. Gorgonian research in China - Family Isis and one of its new species

1990. Xeniidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) from the Red Sea, with the description of a new species

Ofwegen, L. P. van & Benayahu, Y. 1992. Notes on Alcyonacea (Octocorallia) from Tanzania

1994. A redescription of Anthomastus agilis Tixier-Durivault with a generic placement in Sinularia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia), and some remarks on Sinularia ramosa Tixier-Durivault

Ofwegen, L. P. van & Vennam, J. 1994. Results of the Rumphius biohistorical expedition to Ambon. Part 3. The Alcyoniidae

Ofwegen, L. P. van, 1996. Octocorallia from the Bismarck Sea (Part II)

Vennam, J. & Ofwegen, L. P. van, 1996. Soft corals from the Laccadives

1996. An annotated checklist of the gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) of Singapore, with a discussion of gorgonian diversity in the Indo-West Pacific

1997. Xeniidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) of the Red Sea, with descriptions of six new species of Xenia

Ofwegen, L. P. van. 1999. Lobophytum jasparsi spec. nov. from Indonesia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea)

Alderslade, P. 2000. Four new genera of soft corals (Coelenterata: Octocorallia), with notes on the classification of some established taxa

Ofwegen, L.P. van. 2000. Status of knowledge of the Indo-Pacific soft coral genus Sinularia May, 1898

Ofwegen, L. P. van, et al. 2000. The Melithaeidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) of Singapore

Williams, G. C. 2000. A review of the endemic southern African soft coral genus Pieterfaurea Verseveldt & Bayer, 1988 (Octocorallia: Nidaliidae), with descriptions of three new species

Williams, G. C. 2000. A new genus and species of stoloniferous octocoral (Anthozoa: Clavulariidae) from the Pacific coast of North America

Ofwegen, L. P. van. 2001. Sinularia vanderlandi spec. nov. (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from the Seychelles

2002. Soft corals (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) of the Southern Red Sea

2003. An almost complete specimen of the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) octocoral Isis ramosa Voigt (Gorgonacea) from the Lower Saxony basin, northwest Germany 

Ocana, O. and Ofwegen, L. P. van. 2003. Two new genera and one new species of stoloniferous octocorals (Anthozoa: Clavulariidae)

Williams, G. C. 2003. Capitate taxa of the soft coral genus Eleutherobia (Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Palau and South Africa; a new species and a new combination

2003. A new genus and new species of soft coral (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae) from the south western region of Australia

Alderslade, P. 2003. A new genus and species of soft coral (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae) from Lord Howe Island, Australia

McFadden, C. S. and Hochberg, F. C. 2003. Biology and taxonomy of encrusting alcyoniid soft corals in the northeastern Pacific Ocean with descriptions of two new genera (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Octocorallia).

2004. Gorgonids off the Southwest coast of India

2004. An unusual new gorgonian coral (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska

2005. A new genus of nephtheid soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Nephtheidae) from the Indo-Pacific

2006. New and re-described encrusting species of Alcyonium from the Atlantic Ocean (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae)

2006. A new species of Astrogorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Plexauridae) from Bali

Manuputty, A. E. W. and Ofwegen, L. P. van. 2007. The genus Sinularia (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from Ambon and Seram (Moluccas, Indonesia)

Ofwegen, L. P. van and Alderslade, P. 2007. A new species of Alertigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Anthothelidae) from the Indo Malayan region

Benayahu, Y. and Ofwegen, L. P. van 2009. New species of Sarcophyton and Lobophytum (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from Hong Kong

Benayahu, Y. and Chou, L. M. 2010. On some Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Alcyonacea) from Singapore, with a description of a new Cladiella species

Benayahu, Y. and Fabricius, K. 2010. On Some Octocorallia (Alcyonacea) from Hong Kong, with Description of a New Species, Paraminabea rubeusa

Octocoral Ecology

Crossland, C. 1903. The coral reefs of Pemba Island and of the East African mainland

1956. The responses of Heteroxenia (Alcyonaria) to stimulation and to some inorganic ions

1981. Alcyonarian Spiculite: Limestone of Soft Corals

1981. Biochemical composition of soft and hard coral mucus on a New Caledonian lagoonal reef

1991. Reef Environment and Coral Fauna of Southern Taiwan

1991. The function of surface sclerites in gorgonians (Coelenterata, Octocorallia)

1995. Effects of sand deposition on scleractinian and alcyonacean corals

1995. Bioactivity of gorgonians (Sub-class Octocorallia) in Singapore: Preliminary studies

1995. Growth of five species of gorgonians (Sub-class Octocorallia) in the sedimented waters of Singapore

1997. Soft corals as reef builders

1997. A physiological evaluation of carbon sources for calcification in the octocoral Leptogorgia virgulata (Lamarck)

1997. The effects of flow, depth and slope on cover of soft coral taxa and growth forms on Davies Reef, Great Barrier Reef

1998. Toxicity and palatability of gorgonian (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea) extracts to goldfish (Carassius auratus (Linnaeus, 1758))

1998. Patterns of octocoral and black coral distribution in the oceanic barrier reef-complex of Providencia Island, Southwestern Caribbean

1998. Gastrovascular circulation in an octocoral: Evidence of significant transport of coral and symbiont cells.

1999. Patterns and consequences of coral bleaching in Micronesia (Majuro and Guam) in 1992-1994

1999. Farming soft corals for the marine aquarium trade

2000. Changes in the coral community at Dong-Sha Atoll, South China Sea from 1975 to 1998

2000. Chemical and physical defenses of Singapore gorgonians (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea)

2000. Variation in secondary metabolite concentrations in yellow and grey morphs of the Red Sea soft coral Parerythropodium fulvum fulvum: Possible ecological implications

2000. Effect of nutrient enrichment on the complementary (secondary) metabolite composition of the soft coral Sarcophyton ehrenbergi (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyonaceae) of the Great Barrier Reef

2001. Coral bleaching and disease: Contributors to 1998 mass mortality in Briareum asbestinum (Octocorallia, Gorgonacea)

2002. Antifungal properties of Singapore gorgonians: A preliminary study

2002. Recent advances in lagoon-based farming practices for eight species of commercially valuable hard and soft corals - A technical Report

2002. Experimental nutrition in the soft coral Alcyonium digitatum (Cnidaria: Octocorallia): removal rate of phytoplankton and zooplankton

2003. Stability of an octocoral-algal symbiosis over time and space

Benayahu, Y., et al. 2003. Corals of the South-west Indian Ocean: VI. The Alcyonacea (Octocorallia) of Mozambique, with a discussion on soft coral distribution on south equatorial East African reefs

2003. A distinctive epibiotic bacterial community on the soft coral Dendronephthya sp. and antibacterial activity of coral tissue extracts suggest a chemical mechanism against bacterial epibiosis

2004. The acquisition of exogenous algal symbionts by an octocoral after bleaching

2004. Resurvey of a reef flat in American Samoa after 85 years reveals devastation to a soft coral (Alcyonacea) community

2004. Cell growth and calcification result from uncoupled physiological processes in the soft coral Litophyton arboreum

2004. Soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from Southern Taiwan. II. Species diversity and distributional patterns

2004. Community structure of stony and soft corals on vertical unplanned artificial reefs in Eilat (Red Sea): comparison to natural reefs

2004. Complementary (secondary) metabolites in an octocoral competing with a scleractinian coral: effects of varying nutrient regimes

2005. Distribution of butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae) along the Egyptian Red Sea coast and its relation to coral health

2006. A pyridinium derivative from Red Sea soft corals inhibited voltage-activated potassium conductances and increased excitability of rat cultured sensory neurones

Tentori, T., et al. 2004. Cell growth and calcification result from uncoupled physiological processes in the soft coral Litophyton arboreum

Tentori, T. and Allemand, D. 2006. Light-Enhanced calcification and dark decalcification in isolates of the soft coral Cladiella sp. During Tissue Recovery

Chanmethakul, T., et al. 2010. Soft coral (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea) distribution patterns in Thai waters

Reproduction

Gohar, H. A. F. 1940a. The development of some Xeniidae

Gohar, H. A. F. 1940b. Studies on the Xeniidae of the Red Sea.
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Gohar, H. A. F. and Roushdy, H. 1961. On the embryology of the Xeniidae

1981. Reproductive biology of an alcyonacean soft coral, Lobophytum crassum Marenzeller

1985. Some chemical aspects of spawning in alcyonacean corals

1985. Reproduction in the temperate Australian soft coral Capnella gaboensis

1985. Aspects of the life history of a stolon-bearing species of Efflatounaria (Octocorallia: Xeniidae) 

1992. Gamete dilution and fertilization success among broadcast spawning octocorals

Dahn, M. and Benayahu, Y. 1997. Reproduction of Dendronephthya hemprichi (Cnidaria: Octocorallia): year-round spawning in an azooxanthellate soft coral

Dahn, M. and Benayahu, Y. 1997. Clonal propagation by the azooxanthellate octocoral Dendronephthya hemprichi

1999. The gorgonian coral Acabaria biserialis: Life history of a successful colonizer of artificial substrata

2002. Reproduction of Cnidaria

2004. Morphological and genetic variation across reef habitats in a broadcast-spawning octocoral

2004. Diversity of dinoflagellate symbionts in Red Sea soft corals: mode of symbiont acquisition matters

2004. The role of epibotic bacteria from the surface of the soft coral Dendronephthya sp. in the inhibition of larval settlement

2005. Comparative proteomics of symbiotic and aposymbiotic juvenile soft corals

2005. Sexual reproduction of the alcyonacean coral Lobophytum pauciflorm in Southern Taiwan

McFadden, C. S. 1991. A comparative demographic analysis of clonal reproduction in a temperate soft coral.

McFadden, C. S. 1997. Contributions of sexual and asexual reproduction to population structure in the clonal soft coral, Alcyonium rudyi.

Genetics

2002. Genotyping the clonal population structure of a gorgonian coral, Junceella fragilis (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Ellisellidae) from Lanyu, Taiwan, using simple sequence repeats in ribosomal intergenic spacer

McFadden, C. S. 1999. Genetic and taxonomic relationships among Northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean populations of the soft coral Alcyonium coralloides.

McFadden, C. S., et al. 2001. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of reproductive trait evolution in the soft coral genus Alcyonium.

McFadden, C. S. and Hutchinson, B. M. 2004. Molecular evidence for the hybrid origin of species in the soft coral genus Alcyonium (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Octocorallia).

McFadden, C. S., et. al. 2004. Variation in coding (NADH Dehydrogenase subunits 2, 3, and 6) and noncoding intergenic spacer regions of the mitochondrial genome in Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa).

McFadden, C. S., et. al. 2004. ERRATA: Variation in coding (NADH Dehydrogenase subunits 2, 3, and 6) and noncoding intergenic spacer regions of the mitochondrial genome in Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa).

McFadden, C. S., et. al. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships within the tropical soft coral genera Sarcophyton and Lobophytum (Anthozoa, Octocorallia).

McFadden, C. S., et. al. 2006. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) based on mitochondrial protein-coding sequences.

Sanchez, J. A., et. al. 2003. Molecular phylogenetic analyses of shallow-water Caribbean octocorals.