Catherine S. McFadden

Catherine S. McFadden, American cnidariologist

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

McFadden, C.S.; 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. & McFadden, C.S. 2013. Sinularia leptoclados (Ehrenberg, 1834) (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) re-examined. ZooKeys 272: 29–59. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.272.4406 Reference page.

Janes, M.P.; McFadden, C.S.; 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. & McFadden, C.S. 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., McFadden, C.S. & 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., McFadden, C.S. & 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., McFadden, C.S., 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.
McFadden, C.S. & 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. & McFadden, C.S. 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.

Breedy, O., van Ofwegen, L., McFadden, C.S. & 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.