Philip Alderslade

Philip Alderslade, Australian cnidariologist

Western Australian Museum, Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, Perth, Western Australia 6986, Australia

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Alderslade, P. 2001: Six new genera and six new species of soft coral, and some proposed familial and subfamilial changes within the Alcyonacea (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, 10: 15–65. Full text PDF from ResearchGate Reference page.

Gershwin, L.-A.; Alderslade, P. 2005: A new genus and species of box jellyfish (Cubozoa: Carybdeidae) from tropical Australian waters. Beagle, 21: 27–36. abstract and pdf Reference page.

Alderslade, P., Althaus, F., McEnnulty, F., Gowlett-Holmes, K. & Williams, A. 2014. Australia’s deep-water octocoral fauna: historical account and checklist, distributions and regional affinities of recent collections. Zootaxa 3796(3): 435–452. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3796.3.2 Reference page.
Dueñas, L.F., Alderslade, P. & Sánchez, J.A. 2014. Molecular systematics of the deep-sea bamboo corals (Octocorallia: Isididae: Keratoisidinae) from New Zealand with descriptions of two new species of Keratoisis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 74: 15–28. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.01.031 Reference page.

Bryce, M., Poliseno, A., Alderslade, P. & Vargas, S. 2015: Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records. Zootaxa 3963(2): 160–200. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.2.2. Preview (PDF) Reference page.

Moore, K., Alderslade, P. & Miller, K.J. 2016. A taxonomic revision of the genus Primnoisis Studer [& Wright], 1887 (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Isididae) using morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa 4075(1): 1–141. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4075.1.1.Reference page.

Alderslade, P. & Janes, M.P. 2017. Ixion Alderslade, 2001 and Ixioninae Alderslade, 2001 (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Xeniidae): correctio errorum. Zootaxa 4300(1): 147–148. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4300.1.10. Reference page.
Moore, K.M., Alderslade, P. & Miller, K.J. 2017. A taxonomic revision of Anthothela (Octocorallia: Scleraxonia: Anthothelidae) and related genera, with the addition of new taxa, using morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa 4304(1): 1–212. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4304.1.1. Reference page.

MacIntosh, H. et al. 2018. Invertebrate diversity in the deep Great Australian Bight (200–5000 m). Marine Biodiversity Records. 11(23): 1–17. DOI: 10.1186/s41200-018-0158-x

Kessel, G.M., Alderslade, P., Bilewitch, J.P., Schnabel, K.E., Norman, J., Tekaharoa Potts, R., Gardner, J.P.A. 2022. Dead man’s fingers point to new taxa: Two new genera of New Zealand soft corals (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) and a revision of Alcyonium aurantiacum Quoy & Gaimard, 1833. European Journal of Taxonomy. 837(1): 1–85. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.837.1923 Reference page.