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

Cornularia cornucopiae (Pallas, 1766)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Tubularia Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cornularia*	Lamarck, 1816	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: cornucopic coral sources: 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.

German: Füllhornkoralle

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. (1978). Revision of the common Octocorallia of the Mediterranean circalittoral. III. Stolonifera. Beaufortia. 27(338): 139-176.
additional source	Weinberg, S. (1986). Mediterranean Octocorallia: description of Clavularia carpediem n. sp. and synonymy of Clavularia crassa and C. ochracea on etho-ecological grounds. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. 56(2): 232-246.
additional source	Hickson, S. J. (1930). On the classification of the Alcyonaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, XIV, 229-252
additional source	Hickson, S.J. (1931). Three species of Alcyonaria from the Gulf of Manaar. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum (New series), Natural History Section. 1(2, pt. 2): 81-89.
additional source	Weinberg, S. (1978). Mediterranean octocorallian communities and the abiotic environment. Marine Biology, 49, 41-57
additional source	Tixier-Durivault, A.; d'Hondt, M.J. (1974). Les octocoralliaires de la campagne Biacores. Bulletin de la Museum Nationale d'Histoire naturelle Paris, Ser. 3. 252: 1361-1433.
additional source	Utinomi, H. (1976). A review of the Japanese species of Alcyonium, with descriptions of two new species and an almost forgotten rare species (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. 23(3/5): 191-204.
additional source	Koch, G. von. (1891). Die Alcyonacea des Golfes von Neapel. Mittheilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel. 9: 652-676, plate 25.
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.
redescription	López-González, P.J.; Ocaña, O.; García-Gómez, J.C.; Núñez, J. (1995). North-eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean species of Cornulariidae Dana, 1846 (Anthozoa: Stolonifera) with the description of a new genus. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden. 69(20): 261-272.

Genbank

Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Cornularia cornucopiae (Pallas, 1766). 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:125423