Yehuda Benayahu

Yehuda Benayahu, Israeli cnidariologist

• Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 6 taxon names authored by Yehuda Benayahu

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2013

• 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. 

2016

• 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. 

2017

• 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. 

2018

• 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. 
• Velasquez, X., Bolaños, D.M. & Benayahu, Y. 2018. New records of cotylean flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida: Rhabditophora) from coastal habitats of Israel. Zootaxa 4438(2): 237–260. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4438.2.2 Reference page. 

2019

• Halász, A., McFadden, C.S., 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. 

2024

• McFadden, C.S., 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.