Genus Clavularia Blainville, 1830

Museums

Regional Maps

• Clavularia Blainville, H.M.D. de 1830. Zoophytes. In, Levrault, F.G. (ed.). Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans lequel on traitre méthodiquement des differéns êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement a l'utlité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Paris : Le Normat Tome 60 546 pp, 68 pls (+ pp. 547-631). [499].

  Type species:

   Clavularia viridis Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 by subsequent designation, see Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1851. Monographie des polypiers fossiles des terrains palaeozoïques, précédée d'un tableau général de la classification des polypes. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 5: 1-504, pls. I-XX.
• Hicksonia Delage, Y. & Hérouard, E. 1901. Traite de Zoologie concrète. Les Coelentérés. Paris : Beinwald Tome II(deuxième partie) 848 pp.

  Type species:

   Clavularia viridis Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 by monotypy (Delage & Herouard (1901) erected the genus Hicksonia for Clavularia viridis sensu Hickson, 1886, which they considered a different species from Clavularia viridis Quoy & Gaimard, the type species for Clavularia. Hickson (1894) provided a second and more detailed description of Clavularia viridis sensu Hickson, 1886).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Transition (3), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Hickson, S.J. 1886. Preliminary Notes on certain Zoological Observations made at Talisse Island, North Celebes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 40: 322-325 [Date published April 15, 1886] [322-325]

Hickson, S.J. 1894. A revision of the genera of the Alcyonaria Stolonifera, with a description of one new genus and several new species. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 13(9): 325-347 [343-344, Plate XLIX]

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