• 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

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]

History of changes

• Clavularia australiensis Hickson, S.J. 1890. Preliminary report on a collection of Alcyonaria from Port Philip. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 2(2): 136-140 [137-139].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1939-6-12-004 two colonies each encrusting a sponge fragment (one colony is close to "Specimen 1" of Hickson's Clavularis australiensis Variety A, in Hickson 1894: 338-339, pl. L, Fig. 3. The difference is possibly due to the removal of some of the colony. This colony seems to be specimen 17 in the original 1890 publication. The other colony is presumably "Specimen 2" in Hickson 1894: 339, and would therefore correspond to specimen 11 in the 1890 publication. Samples are accessioned with the date of 1894), Port Phillip Bay, Victoria; CUMZ I.32935 ribbon-like stolons encrusting piece of mussell shell (this is either specimen 2 or 3 of Clavularia australiensis Variety B, in Hickson 1894: 339-340; this would correspond to either specimen 18 or 24 in the original 1890 publication), Port Phillip Bay, Victoria; CUMZ I.32940.A-B ribbon-like stolons encrusting pieces of mussell shell (this is either specimen 2 or 3 of Clavularia australiensis Variety B, in Hickson 1894: 339-340; this would correspond to either specimen 18 or 24 in the original 1890 publication), Port Phillip, Victoria.

  Type locality references:

  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.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Epizoic (host(s): Sponge; ascidian teste; mussell shell), hard bottom, marine, sessile, sheltered bays (host(s): Sponges).

Systematics

This is not a true Clavularia species and the correct identity of this taxon is unknown.

General References

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 [338-339]

History of changes

• Clavularia cylindrica Wright, E.P. & Studer, Th. 1889. Report on the Alcyonaria collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 31: 1-314 [258].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1890.4.11.32 sample in alcohol.

Introduction

Probably more appropriately referred to Cornulariella Verrill, 1874 (Alderslade this work, 2015).

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

Taxonomic note

Thomson & Rennet

History of changes

• Clavularia dura Hickson, S.J. 1921. On some Alcyonaria in the Cambridge Museum. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 20(3): 366-373 [366].

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

Systematics

This is not a true Clavularia species and the correct identity of this taxon is unknown.

History of changes

• Clavularia flava Hickson, S.J. 1890. Preliminary report on a collection of Alcyonaria from Port Philip. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 2(2): 136-140 [140].

  Type data:

   Holotype CUMZ I.32945 colony portions on five pieces of shell in alcohol (The homonym Clavularia flava May, 1898 is the type species for the genus Sansibia Alderslade, 2000).

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

Systematics

This is not a true Clavularia species and the correct identity of this taxon is unknown.

History of changes

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

(no title)

NTM GBR

History of changes

• Clavularia inflata Schenk, A. 1896. Clavulariiden, Xeniiden und Alcyoniiden von Ternate. Vol. 23 pp. 41-80. [48-49].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMB 3593 three colony portions in alcohol; SMF 37 in alcohol.

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

History of changes

• Clavularia inflata luzoniana May, W. 1899. Beitrage zur Systematic und Chorologie der Alcyonaceen. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft 33: 1-180 [44-46] [as Clavularia inflata Schenke, 1896 var. luzoniana May, 1899].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMHB 2573 in alcohol; ZMB 1365 numerous large pices plus fragments in acohol; PMJ 830 in alcohol.

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

General References

MacFadyen, L.M. 1936. Alcyonaria (Stolonifera, Alcyonacea, Telestacea and Gorgonacea). Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(2): 19-72

History of changes

• Hicksonia kollikeri Dean, I. 1927. The genus Hicksonia: an account of a new species. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh 1927 21: 115-122 [118-120].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMA COEL 2683; ZMA COEL 2687; ZMA COEL 2688; ZMA COEL 2693; ZMA COEL 2694; ZMA COEL 2695; ZMA COEL 2699; ZMA COEL 2792.

Generic Combinations

• Clavularia kollikeri (Dean, 1927). —
  van Soest, R.W.M. 1977. A catalogue of the coelenterate type specimens of the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam. III. Antipatharia, Pennatulacea, Stolonifera, Telestacea, Alcyonacea. Beaufortia 26(332): 77-98 [85]

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

Taxonomic note

NTM Palm Islands;+ Torres Strait; GBR

History of changes

• Clavularia ramosa Hickson, S.J. 1890. Preliminary report on a collection of Alcyonaria from Port Philip. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 2(2): 136-140 [137].

  Type data:

   Holotype CUMZ I.32955 isolated stolonic growths on brown algae in alcohol.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1939.6.12.6 colonies on brown algae in alcohol.

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

(no title)

+ NTM Penguin Is WA

Systematics

This is not a true Clavularia species and the correct identity of this taxon is unknown

History of changes

• Clavularia rosea Studer, T. 1878. Ubersicht der Anthozoa Alcyonaria, welche wahrend der Reise S.M.S. Gazelle um die Erde gesammelt wurden. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1878: 632-688 [633].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 1680 sample in alcohol.

Introduction

Probably more appropriately referred to Cornulariella Verrill, 1874 (Alderslade this work, 2015).

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

(no title)

Systematics

Studers' type material originated from Kerguelen and the subsequent Australian records are questionable. Whitlegge expressed doubt over his own identification of samples from Sydney Harbour, and Thomson and Rennet's description of material from Macquarie Island referred to the presence of "interlocked spindles so that large pieces [of the calyx] can separated off intact", which are charteristics not mentioned by Studer. Thomson and Rennet's material could possibly be Rhodelinda gardineri Gohar, which has been shown to be common, in some regions at least, of Macquarie Ridge.

History of changes

• Clavularia viridis 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. [260-261].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP.

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

(no title)

NTM Franklin Is.

History of changes