A review of gorgonian coral species (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) held in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History research collection: focus on species from Scleraxonia, Holaxonia, and Calcaxonia - Part I: Introduction, species of Scleraxonia and Holaxonia (Family Acanthogorgiidae)
Author
Horvath, Elizabeth Anne
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ZooKeys
2019
860
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66
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.860.19961
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.860.19961
1313-2970-860-1
11140DC997444A479EC83AF9E2891BAB
Family
Paragorgiidae
Kuekenthal
, 1916
Diagnosis.
Robust, profusely branched colonies with dimorphic polyps (feeding autozooids, reproductive siphonozooids). Axial skeletal structure solely a continuous medulla, containing separable sclerites. Medulla perforated by gastrodermal canals all the way to branch tips, not separated from cortex by a ring of boundary canals.