Acrossota Bourne, 1914

Alderslade, Philip & S, Catherine, 2007, Pinnuleless polyps: a new genus and new species of IndoPacific Clavulariidae and validation of the soft coral genus Acrossota and the family Acrossotidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia), Zootaxa 1400, pp. 27-44 : 28

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.200377
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6249861
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scientific name	Acrossota Bourne, 1914
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Diagnosis. Colonies of upright polyps arising from stolons that may coalesce into small or extensive basal membranes. Polyp bodies, basal membranes and stolons are covered by a cuticle. Polyp tentacles snakelike, without pinnules, able to be withdrawn by a process of invagination. Sclerites absent. Zooxanthellate.

Type species. Clavularia amboinensis Burchardt, 1902 , here designated = Acrossota amboinensis n. comb.