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

Alcyonium hibernicum (Renouf, 1931)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Parerythropodium Kükenthal, 1916

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Alcyonium*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name
*Alcyonidium*	auct.	synonym
*Parerythropodium*	Kükenthal, 1916	synonym
*Rhodophyton*	Gray, 1865	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: pink sea fingers

Literature

basis of record	McFadden, C.S. (1999). Genetic and taxonomic relationships among northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean populations of the soft coral Alcyonium corallioides. Marine Biology. 133: 171-184.
additional source	McFadden, C. S.; Donahue, R.; Hadland, B. K.; Weston, R. (2001). A molecular phylogenetic analysis of reproductive trait evolution in the soft coral genus Alcyonium. Evolution, 55(1): 54-67
additional source	van Ofwegen, L.P., S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds). (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms.
additional source	Stokvis, F.R.; van Ofwegen, L.P. (2006). New and redescribed encrusting species of Alcyonium from the Atlantic Ocean (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae). Zoologische Mededelingen. 80(4), 165-183.
additional source	Benayahu, Y.; Loya, Y. (1986). Sexual reproduction of a soft coral: synchronous and brief annual spawning of Sarcophyton glaucum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). Biological Bulletin, 170, 32-42
additional source	McFadden, C. S.; Hutchinson, M. B. (2004). Molecular evidence for the hybrid origin of species in the soft coral genus Alcyonium (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Octocorallia). Molecular Ecology, 13, 1495-1505

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Alcyonium hibernicum (Renouf, 1931). 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:178914