Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records Author Bryce, Monika Author Poliseno, Angelo Author Alderslade, Philip Author Vargas, Sergio text Zootaxa 2015 3963 2 160 200 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.2.2 6c08566c-16f7-4c32-a3c1-756725666467 1175-5326 288659 86A305B7-2B9C-403E-8FC0-3420EFB13F52 Family Parasphaerascleridae McFadden & Ofwegen, 2013 Diagnosis . Soft corals with a digitiform, digitate or lobate growth form. Usually with a bare stalk, which can be indistinct. Polyps monomorphic, retractile, producing small, coenenchymal mounds when retracted. Permanent calyces absent. Sclerites of colony surface and interior predominantly radiates and/or tuberculate spheroids, occasionally along with rodlets and crosses. Sclerites permanently coloured. Polyp sclerites absent. Azooxanthellate. (adapted from McFadden & Ofwegen 2013 ).