Parasphaerascleridae McFadden & Ofwegen, 2013

Bryce, Monika, Poliseno, Angelo, Alderslade, Philip & Vargas, Sergio, 2015, Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records, Zootaxa 3963 (2), pp. 160-200 : 163

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.2.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:86A305B7-2B9C-403E-8FC0-3420EFB13F52
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5680240
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B687F9-A45C-FFE5-17DB-529F4F01FA53
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Parasphaerascleridae McFadden & Ofwegen, 2013
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Family Parasphaerascleridae McFadden & Ofwegen, 2013 View in CoL

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).