Catherine S. McFadden

Catherine S. McFadden, American cnidariologist

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Daly, M., Brugler, M.R., Cartwright, P., Collins, A.G., Dawson, M.N., Fautin, D.G., France, S.C., , Opresko, D.M., Rodriguez, E., Romano, S.L. & Stake, J.L. 2007. The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. Pp. 127–182. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. & Shear, W. A. (eds.) Linnaeus Tercentenary: Progress in Invertebrate Taxonomy. Zootaxa 1668: 1–766. PDF Full text. Reference page.

; van Ofwegen, L.P. 2013. Molecular phylogenetic evidence supports a new family of octocorals and a new genus of Alcyoniidae (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). ZooKeys 346: 59–83. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.346.6270 Reference page.
Ofwegen, L.P. van, Benayahu, Y. & 2013. Sinularia leptoclados (Ehrenberg, 1834) (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) re-examined. ZooKeys 272: 29–59. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.272.4406 Reference page.

Janes, M.P.; ; Chanmethakul, T. 2014: A new species of Ovabunda (Octocorallia, Xeniidae) from the Andaman Sea, Thailand with notes on the biogeography of this genus. ZooKeys 431: 1–17. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.431.7751 Reference page.

Samimi-Namin, K., van Ofwegen, L. & 2016. A new species of Melithaea (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Melithaeidae) from the Oman Sea, off Oman. ZooKeys 623: 15-29. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.623.10045. Reference page.
van Ofwegen, L.P., & Benayahu, Y. 2016. Sinularia polydactyla (Ehrenberg, 1834) (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) re-examined, with the description of a new species. ZooKeys 581: 71-126. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.581.7455. Reference page.

Benayahu, Y., & Shoham, E. 2017. Search for mesophotic octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) and their phylogeny: I. A new sclerite-free genus from Eilat, northern Red Sea. ZooKeys 680: 1—11. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.680.12727. Reference page.
Benayahu, Y., , Shoham, E. & van Ofwegen, L.P. 2017. Search for mesophotic octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) and their phylogeny. II. A new zooxanthellate species from Eilat, northern Red Sea. ZooKeys 676: 1—12. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.676.12751. Reference page.
& van Ofwegen, L.P.‎ 2017. Revisionary systematics of the endemic soft coral fauna (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniina) of the Agulhas Bioregion, South Africa. Zootaxa 4363(4): 451–488. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4363.4.1 Reference page.

Benayahu, Y., van Ofwegen, L.P. & 2018. Evaluating the genus Cespitularia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1850 with descriptions of new genera of the family Xeniidae (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). ZooKeys 754: 63–101. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.754.23368. Reference page.

Halász, A., , Toonen, R. & Benayahu, Y. 2019. Re-description of type material of Xenia Lamarck, 1816 (Octocorallia: Xeniidae). Zootaxa 4652(2): 201–239. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.2.1 Reference page.

Breedy, O., van Ofwegen, L., & Murillo-Cruz, C. 2021. Rhodolitica on rhodoliths: a new stoloniferan genus (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). Zookeys 1032: 63–77. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1032.63431 Reference page.

, van Ofwegen, L.P. & Quattrini, A.M. 2022. Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 1(3), 8735: 1–79. DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v1i3.8735 PDF Reference page.

Breedy, O., & Cortés, J. 2023. An enigmatic new octocoral species (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Malacalcyonacea) from Isla del Coco National Park. Zookeys 1169ː 317–331. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1169.100576 Reference page.

, Benayahu, Y. & Samimi-Namin, K. 2024. A new genus of soft coral (Octocorallia, Malacalcyonacea, Cladiellidae) and three new species from Indo-Pacific coral reefs. ZooKeys 1188: 275–304. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1188.110617 Reference page.