Species Cladiella tuberculosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Alcyonium tuberculosum Quoy, J.R. & Gaimard, J.P. 1833. Zoophytes. In: Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1827-1828-1829, Sous le Commandement de M. J. Dumont D'Urville. Paris : J.Tastu Vol. 4 390 pp. [274].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Amis, Tonga.

Generic Combinations

• Sphaerella tuberculosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). —
  Gray, J.E. 1869. Notes on the fleshy alcyonoid corals (Alcyonium, Linn., or Zoophytaria carnosa). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 3: 117-131 [122]
• Cladiella tuberculosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). —
  Verseveldt, J. 1982. Soft Corals or Alcyonarians (Orders Stolonifera, Telestacea, and Alcyonacea). pp. 183-197 in Shepherd, S.A. & Thomas, I.M. (eds). Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Adelaide : Government Printer Part 1 491 pp. [189] (This species does not actually occur in the temperate waters of southern Australia)
• Lobularia tuberculosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). —
  Tixier-Durivault, A. 1943. Les alcyonaires du Museum: I. Famille des Alcyonidae. I. Genre Lobularia. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2 15: 437-443 [438]

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

History of changes