Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from Brazilian reefs
Author
Castro, C. B.
Author
Medeiros, M. S.
Author
Loiola, L. L.
text
Journal of Natural History
2010
2010-03-15
44
13 - 14
763
827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930903441160
journal article
10.1080/00222930903441160
1464-5262
5207416
Genus
Phyllogorgia
Milne-Edwards and Haime, 1850
Diagnosis
Planar colonies. Branching pinnate, ramification pinnate, lax, with branch axes loosely anastomosing. Coenenchyme almost always forming more or less continuous lamina, by filling in meshes of axes net. Coenenchymal sclerites scaphoids with echinulate convex profile, and stout spindles with girdles of tubercles (
Bayer 1961: 271
).
Type
species
Gorgonia dilatata
Esper, 1806
, by original designation.