Primnoidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Calcaxonia) of the Okeanos Explorer expeditions (CAPSTONE) to the central Pacific
Author
Cairns, Stephen D.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-12-17
4532
1
1
43
journal article
27764
10.11646/zootaxa.4532.1.1
b3fb460f-20b4-4c62-98ea-a07d901bbfc0
1175-5326
2614967
4E9D0908-0933-48AF-A6ED-F3B8D39E8994
Genus
Callogorgia
Gray, 1858
Callogorgia
Gray, 1858: 286
.—
Bayer, 1982
: 119
–123 (key to Indo-Pacific species).—
Cairns & Bayer, 2002
: 841
–845; 2009: 40.—
Cairns, 2010
: 425
(Hawaiian species); 2016b: 58 (
New Zealand
species); 2018: 6 (key to Indo-Pacific species).—
Cairns & Wirshing, 2018
: 8
, 18, fig. 4o.
Fanellia
Gray, 1870
: 46
.—
Bayer, 1982
: 134
–135 (key to species).—
Bayer & Stefani, 1989
: 470
–471 (key to genus and all species).—
Cairns & Bayer, 2009
: 40
–41.—
Cairns & Wirshing, 2018
: 8
, 18.
Type
Species
.
Gorgonia verticillata
Pallas, 1766
, by monotypy.
Diagnosis
. Colonies uniplanar, pinnately or dichotomously branched. Polyps arranged in pairs or whorls of up to 16, all polyps facing upward. Polyps covered by eight longitudinal rows of body wall scales, the number of scales per row decreasing from ab- to adaxial polyp side. Body wall scales granular, smooth, pitted, tuberculate, or covered with tall ridges (cristate) for all or part of polyp. Inner side of opercular scales convex, covered with a multiply serrate keel.
Discussion
. With the recent synonymy of
Fanellia
with
Callogorgia
, the genus now contains 38 species (
Cairns & Wirshing 2018
, Cairns 2018). A key to the 22 Indo-Pacific species was recently published by Cairns (2018). Discussions of the genus are included in
Cairns & Bayer (2009)
and Cairns (2018).
Distribution
. Indo-Pacific, Atlantic,
37–2472 m
.