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Acrossota

Acrossota

Bourne, 1914

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Diagnosis. Colonies of upright polyps arising from stolons that may coalesce into small or extensive basal membranes. Polyp bodies, basal membranes and stolons are covered by a cuticle. Polyp tentacles snake­like, without pinnules, able to be withdrawn by a process of invagination. Sclerites absent. Zooxanthellate.
Alderslade, Philip, S, Catherine (2007): Pinnule­less polyps: a new genus and new species of Indo­Pacific Clavulariidae and validation of the soft coral genus Acrossota and the family Acrossotidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Zootaxa 1400: 27-44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200377
Type species. Clavularia amboinensis Burchardt, 1902, here designated = Acrossota amboinensis n. comb.
Alderslade, Philip, S, Catherine (2007): Pinnule­less polyps: a new genus and new species of Indo­Pacific Clavulariidae and validation of the soft coral genus Acrossota and the family Acrossotidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Zootaxa 1400: 27-44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200377

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AnimaliaCnidariaAnthozoaAlcyonaceaAcrossotidaeAcrossota

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Pinnule­less polyps: a new genus and new species of Indo­Pacific Clavulariidae and validation of the soft coral genus Acrossota and the family Acrossotidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia)

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Alderslade, Philip, S, Catherine (2007): Pinnule­less polyps: a new genus and new species of Indo­Pacific Clavulariidae and validation of the soft coral genus Acrossota and the family Acrossotidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Zootaxa 1400: 27-44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200377

Abstract

Clavularia amboinensis Burchardt, a species described as possessing simple, pinnule­less tentacles (a fact refuted by later authors) is confirmed to be as described and is transferred as a new combination to Acrossota Bourne — a genus dismissed until now by a number of authors. The species is compared to recently collected material with live photographs. A second new genus and species, Knopia octocontacanalis, is also described. This taxon resembles Acrossota in general form, but has tentacles where the pinnules appear as though they are fused side to side along the tentacles’ lateral margins. Preliminary phylogenetic analyses of two mitochondrial genes support placement of Knopia in Clavulariidae and retention of genus Acrossota in Bourne’s unrecognised family Acrossotidae.

Key words: Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Clavulariidae, Acrossotidae, Clavularia amboinensis, Knopia, new genus, new species, Indonesia

Alderslade P, S C, plazi (2007). Pinnule­less polyps: a new genus and new species of Indo­Pacific Clavulariidae and validation of the soft coral genus Acrossota and the family Acrossotidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.200377 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-16.

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119353329
Dataset Key
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4883112
Taxon ID
03F48A48FF915D49FF2DF937DD9D32EE.taxon
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Last Interpreted
6/16/2026
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