Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Octocorallia > Order Malacalcyonacea > Family Ceratocaulidae > Genus Ceratocaulon

Ceratocaulon wandeli Jungersen, 1892

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ceratocaulon*	Jungersen, 1892	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Jungersen, H.F.E. (1892). Ceratocaulon wandeli, en ny nordisk Alcyonide. Videnskabelige meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske forening i Kjöbenhavn. 1891: 234-242.
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
additional source	Madsen, F. J. (1944). Octocorallia (Stolonifera - Telestacea - Xeniidae - Alcyonacea - Gorgonacea). The Danish Ingolf-Expedition, Vol. V. Bianco Luno A/S. 5(13): 1-65.
additional source	Williams, G.C.; Starmer, J. (2000). A new genus and species of soft coral (Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from South Africa. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 52(8): 87-96.
additional source	Williams, G.C. (1987). The aberrant and monotypic soft coral genus Malacacanthus Thomson, 1910 (Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) endemic to southern Africa. Journal of Natural History. 21: 1337-1346.
additional source	Williams, G.C. (1988). Four new species of southern African octocorals (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea), with a further diagnostic revision of the genus Alcyonium Linnaeus, 1758. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 92: 1-26.
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.
additional source	Deichmann, E. (1936). The Alcyonaria of the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College. 53: 1-317, plates 1-37.
redescription	López-González, P. J.; Sanmartín-Payá, E.; Williams, G. C. (2024). The enigmatic soft coral Ceratocaulon wandeli Jungersen, 1892 (Octocorallia, Malacalcyonacea), a molecular and morphological approach with description of a new family. Marine Biodiversity. 54(6).

Genbank

Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Ceratocaulon wandeli Jungersen, 1892. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125347