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.
