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

Bellonella Gray, 1862

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cereopsis*	Saville Kent, 1870	synonym

Children

Bellonella variabilis (Studer, 1891)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ホンウミイチゴ属

Literature

original description	Gray, J.E. (1862). Description of two new genera of zoophytes (Solenocaulon and Bellonella) discovered on the north coast of Australia by Mr. Rayner. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1862: 34-37.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	López-González, P. J.; Gili, J. M. (2000). A new octocoral genus (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from Antarctic waters. Polar Biology. 23: 452-458.
additional source	Uchida, T. (1969). On a northern alcyonarian, Alcyonium pacificum Yamada. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Imperial University, 17, 6, 397-399
additional source	Williams, G.C. (2000). Two new genera of soft corals (Anthozoa: Alcyoniidae) from South Africa, with a discussion of diversity and endemism in the Southern African octocorallian fauna. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 52(6): 65-75.
additional source	Imahara, Y. (2006). Preliminary report on the alcyonacean and pennatulacean octocorals collected by the natural history research of the Sagami Sea. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) [Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan], 40, 91-101
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	Williams, G.C. (1992). The Alcyonacea of southern Africa. Stoloniferous octocorals and soft corals (Coelenterata, Anthozoa). Annals of the South African Museum. 100: 249-358.
additional source	Williams, G.C. (1992). Revision of the soft coral genus Minabea (Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) with new taxa from the Indo-West Pacific. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 48(1): 1-26.
additional source	Utinomi, H. (1957). Minabea ozakii n. gen. et n. sp., a new remarkable alcyonarian type with dimorphic polyps. Jour. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ. Ser. VI, Zool. 13: 139-146.
additional source	Utinomi, H.; Imahara, Y. (1976). A new second species of dimorphic alcyonacean octocoral Minabea from the bays of Sagami and Suruga, with the emendation of the generic diagnosis. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. 23(3/5): 205-212, plate 1.

Genbank

Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Bellonella Gray, 1862. 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:267263