Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Octocorallia > Order Scleralcyonacea > Family Coralliidae > Genus Corallium

Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Madrepora Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Corallium*	Cuvier, 1798	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: korali i kuq sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

Bulgarian: cherven korаl; Червен корал sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Catalan: corall vermell

Dutch: bloedkoraal sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: precious coral; precious red coral; red coral sources: Hayward, P. J.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1996). Collins pocket guide: sea shore of Britain and Europe. Collins pocket guides. Harper-Collins Publishers: London, UK. ISBN 0-00-219955-6. 352 pp.;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

French: corail rouge

German: Edelkoralle; Rote Edelkoralle sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Greek: Κόκκινο κοράλι sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: corallo rosso sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: raudonasis koralas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: koral czerwony sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: красный коралл sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: rdeča korala sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: coral rojo sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: kırmızı mercan sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Корал червоний; Корал шляхетний; Червоний корал sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Western Frisian: reade koraal

Literature

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	Weinberg, S. (1976). Revision of the common Octocorallia of the Mediterranean circalittoral. I. Gorgonacea. Beaufortia. 24(313): 63-104.
additional source	Weinberg, S. (1977). Revision of the common Octocorallia of the Mediterranean circalittoral II. Alcyonacea. Beaufortia. 25(326): 131-166.
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.
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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	Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Busquets, P.; De Mol, B.; Sandoval, N. G.; Canals, M.; Casamor, J. L. (2005). Deep-water coral occurrences in the Strait of Gibraltar. André Freiwald and J. Murray Roberts (eds.). Springer. Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 207-221
additional source	Orejas, C.; Gili, J.; López-González, P. J.; Hasemann, C.; Arntz, W. E. (2007). Reproduction patterns of four Antarctic octocorals in the Weddell Sea: an inter-specific, shape, and latitudinal comparison. Marine Biology, 150, 551-563
additional source	Zeevi Ben-Yosef, D.; Benayahu, Y. (1999). The gorgonian coral Acabaria biserialis: life history of a successful colonizer of artificial substrata. Marine Biology, 135, 473-481
additional source	Gohar, H.A.F. (1940). Studies on the Xeniidae of the Red Sea: their ecology, physiology, taxonomy and phylogeny. Publications of the Marine Biological Station, Ghardaqa (Red Sea). 2: 25-118, plates 1-7.
additional source	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, plates 45-50.
additional source	Fredj, G. (1972). Compte rendu de plongée en S.P. 300 sur les fonds à Laminaria rodriguezii Bornet de la pointe de Revellata (Corse). Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique (Monaco), 71(1421): 1-42
additional source	Weinberg, S. (1978). Mediterranean octocorallian communities and the abiotic environment. Marine Biology, 49, 41-57
additional source	Bayer, F. M. (1996). Three new species of precious coral (Anthozoa: Gorgonacea, genus Corallium) from Pacific waters. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 109: 205–228.
additional source	Weinberg, S. (1978). Revision of the common Octocorallia of the Mediterranean circalittoral. III. Stolonifera. Beaufortia. 27(338): 139-176.

Genbank

Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758). 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:125416