Publications - Philip Alderslade

Alderslade, P. 1983. Dampia pocilloporaeformis, a new genus and a new species of Octocorallia (Coelenterata) from Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 1(4): 33-40.

Alderslade, P. 1984. O. Antipatharia, and, Sub-Class Octocorallia, in Mather, P. and I. Bennett (Eds.), A Coral Reef Handbook, Second Edition. The Australian Coral Reef Society, Brisbane.

Alderslade, P. 1985. Redescription of Acrophytum claviger (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 2(1): 105-113.

Alderslade, P. 1986. An unusual leaf-like gorgonian (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3(1): 81-93.

Alderslade, P. 1986. New species of the gorgonian genus Plumigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) with a review of the family Ifalukellidae. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3(1): 95-122.

Alderslade, P. 1987. A new species of Sinularia (Octocorallia: Coelenterata) from Western Australia, with extraordinary large sclerites. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 4(1): 85-94.

Alderslade, P. 1992. Mopsea Lamouroux, 1816 (Cnidaria, Octocorallia): proposed designation of Isis encrinula Lamarck, 1815 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 49(2): 104-108.

Alderslade, P. 1993. O. Antipatharia, and, Sub-Class Octocorallia, in Mather, P. and I. Bennett (Eds.), A Coral Reef Handbook, Third Edition. Surrey Beatty and Sons, Chipping Norton, NSW.

Alderslade, P. 1993. A redescription of Alcyonium agaricum Stimpson with a generic placement in Sarcophyton (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Precious Corals and Octocoral Research 1: 20-29.

Alderslade, P. 1994. A redescription of Anthomastus agilis Tixier-Durivault with a generic placement in Sinularia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia), and some remarks on Sinularia ramosa Tixier-Durivault. The Beagle, Records of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 11: 133-139.

Alderslade, P. 1995. Kapitel 7, Einführung in Die UnterKlasse Octocorallia, in S. Fosså and A. Nilsen, Korallenriff-Aquarium Band 4, Birgit Schmettkamp, Bornheim.

Alderslade, P. 1998. Chapter 7, Introduction to the Octocorals, in S. Fosså and A. Nilsen, The Modern Coral reef Aquarium, Volume 2, Birgit Schmettkamp, Bornheim.

Alderslade, P. 1998. Revisionary systematics in the gorgonian family Isididae, with descriptions of numerous new taxa (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement No. 55: 359pp.

Alderslade, P. 2000. Four new genera of soft corals (Coelenterata: Octocorallia), with notes on the classification of some established taxa. Zoologische Mededlingen. Leiden 74(16): 237-249.

Alderslade, P. 2001. 4/4.5 Gorgonians and soft corals, in Identification of specimens from the north west shelf and slope for the Australian Institute of Marine Science. Department of Aquatic Zoology, Western Australian Museum.

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.

Alderslade, P. 2002. A new soft coral genus (Coelenterata: Octcorallia) from Palau. The Beagle, Records of the Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 18(1): 1-8.

Alderslade, P. 2003. A new genus and new species of soft coral (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae) from the south western region of Australia. Zootaxa 175: 1-10.

Alderslade, P. 2003. A new genus and species of soft coral (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae) from Lord Howe Island, Australia. Zoologische Verhandelingen 345: 19-29.

Alderslade, P. 2004. Übersicht über die Lederkorallen der Familie Alcyoniidae (sic). Korallen, Meerwasseraquaristik-Fachmagazin NR.29, Jahrgang 5, Ausgabe 4, Okt/Nov 2004: 47.

Alderslade, P. 2006. New subfamilies and a new genus and species of Melithaeidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Alcyonacaea) with comparative data on the structure of both melithaeid and subergorgiid axes. Zootaxa 1199: 19-47.

Alderslade, P., and J. Baxter. 1986. A new species of Sinularia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 13(2): 203-214.

Alderslade, P., and C.S. McFadden. 2007. Pinnule-less polyps: a new genus and new species of Indo-Pacific Clavulariidae and validation of the soft coral genus Acrossota and the family Acorssotidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Zootaxa 1400: 27-44.

Alderslade, P., K. Muzik and Y. Benayahu. 1989. Report on the Unesco / Comar 1st Octocoral Research Workshop and Advanced Training Course, Phuket, Thailand, 30 November - 13 December, 1987. Marinf. 1989. (Unesco Division of Marine Sciences, reports) 71: 1-27.

Alderslade, P., and P. Shirwaiker. 1991. New species of soft corals (Coelenterata: Octocoralia) from the Laccadive Archipelago. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 8(1): 189-233.

Benayahu, L.P., Ofwegen L.P. van, and Alderslade, P. 1998. A study of variation in two nominal species of Sinularia (Coelenterata: Octocoralia), S. Brassica May, 1898, and S. Dura (Pratt, 1903), with a proposal for their synonymy. Zoologische Verhandelingen 323: 277-309.

Bloom, D.A., Burnett, J.W., Alderslade, P. 1998. Partial purification of box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri) nematocyst venom isolated at the beachside. Toxicon 36(8): 1075-1086

Bloom, D.A., Burnett, J.W., Hebel, J.R., and Alderslade, P. 1999. Effects of verapamil and CSL antivenom on Chironex fleckeri (box-jellyfish) induced mortality. Toxicon 37: 1621-1626.

Carrette, T., Alderslade, P., and Seymour, J. 2002. Nematocyst ratio and prey in two Australian cubomedusans, Chironex fleckeri and Chiropsalmus sp. Toxicon 40: 1547-1551.

Coll, J.C., P.A. Leone, B.F. Bowden, A.R. Carroll, G.M. König, A. Heaton, R. De Nys, M. Maida, P.M. Aliño, R.H. Willis, R.C. Babcock, Z. Florian, M.N. Clayton, R.L. Miller, and P. N. Alderslade. 1995. Chemical aspects of mass spawning in corals. ll. (-) -Epi-thunbergol, the sperm attractant in the eggss of the soft coral Lobophytum crassum (Cnidaria: Octocorallia). Marine Biology 123: 137-143.

Currie, B. Khanh, D.M. Alderslade, P. Williamson, J. and Fenner, P. 1992. Jellyfish envenomation in the Northern Territory of Australia. Toxicon 30: 501.

Currie, B. and Alderslade, P. 1993. Box-jellyfish, Coca-Cola and old wine. The Medical Journal of Australia 158: 868.

Bowden, F.B., Alderslade, P., et al. 1989. Studies of Australian soft corals. XLVII. New halogenated Briaran diterpenes from a Briareum species (Octocorallia, Gorgonacea). Australian Journal of Chemistry 42: 1727-1734.

Fabricius, K. and P. Alderslade. 2001. Soft Corals and Sea Fans: A comprehensive guide to the tropical shallow water genera of the Central West Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, 264 pp.

Feussner, K.-D., Skelton, P.A., South, G.R., Alderslade, P. and Aalbersberg, W. 2004. Ostreobium quekettii (Ostreobiaceae: Chlorophyceae) invading the barnacle Acasta sp. (Pendunculata: Acastinae), endozoic in the octocoral Rumphella suffruticosa (Alcyonacea: Gorgoniidae) from Fiji, South Pacific. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 38: 87-90.

Gershwin, L-A., and Alderslade, P. 2005. A new genus and species of box jellyfish (Cubozoa: Carybdeidae) from tropical Australian waters. The Beagle, Records of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 21: 27-36.

Grasshoff, M. and P. Alderslade. 1997. Gorgoniidae of Indo-Pacific reefs with descriptions of two new genera (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Senckenbergiana biologica 77(1): 23-25.

McFadden, C.S., S.C. France, J.A. Sanchez, and P. Alderslade. 2006. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) based on mitchondrial protein-coding sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41: 513-527.

Morrison, S.M. and P. Alderslade. 1996. Part 3. Octocorals, in Marine Biological Survey of the Muiron Islands and the Eastern Shore of Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia. Western Australian Museum.

ten Lohuis, M., P. Alderslade and D.J. Miller. 1990. Isolation and cloning of DNA from somatic tissue of soft corals (Cnidaria : Octocorallia). Marine Biology 104: 489-492.

Tillekeratne, L.M.V., E.D. De Silva, M.P.D. Mahindaratne, F.J. Schmitz, S.P. Gunasekera, and Alderslade, P. 1989. Xanthyletin and Xanthoxyletin from a gorgonian, Echinogorgia sp. Journal of Natural Products Chemistry 52(6): 1303-1304.

Verseveldt, J. and Alderslade, P. N. 1982. Descriptions of Types and other Alcyonacean material (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) in the Australian Museum, Sydney. Records of the Australian Museum. 34(15): 619-647.

Veron. J.E.N., Alderslade, P. & Harris, P. 2004. Corals. In, National Ocean Office. Description of key species groups in the Northern Planning Area. National Oceans Office, Hobart, Australia.

Wallace, C, Alderslade, P., and E. Lovell. 1984. Corals: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? In, Reader's Digest Book of the Great Barrier Reef, Reader's Digest, Sydney

Wells, J. W. and Alderslade, P. N. 1979. The Scleractinian coral Archohelia living on the coastal shores of Queensland, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 32(5): 211-216.

Williams, G. C. and Alderslade, P. 1999. Revisionary systematics of the Western Pacific soft coral genus Minabea (Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae), with descriptions of a related new genus and species from the Indo-Pacific. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 51(7): 337-364.

Wolstenholme, J., Dinesen, Z.D., and Alderslade, P. 1997. Hard corals of the Darwin region, Northern Territory, Australia, in J. R. Hanley, G. Caswell, D. Megirian and H.K Larson (Eds), Proceedings of the Sixth International marine Biological Workshop. The marine flora and fauna of Darwin Harbour Northern Territory, Australia, Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin.