Heterogorgia Verrill, 1868b

Castro, C. B., Medeiros, M. S. & Loiola, L. L., 2010, Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from Brazilian reefs, Journal of Natural History 44 (13 - 14), pp. 763-827 : 776

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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930903441160

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scientific name

Heterogorgia Verrill, 1868b
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Genus Heterogorgia Verrill, 1868b View in CoL

Diagnosis

Coenenchymal sclerites mainly spindles irregularly tuberculated, smaller capstans, and few radiates. Margin of coenenchymal mounds with palisade of projecting sclerites with proximal portion tuberculated and distal, projecting part, smooth ( Castro 1990: 412).

Type species

Heterogorgia verrucosa Verrill, 1868b View in CoL , by subsequent designation ( Nutting 1910).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Alcyonacea

Family

Plexauridae

Loc

Heterogorgia Verrill, 1868b

Castro, C. B., Medeiros, M. S. & Loiola, L. L. 2010
2010
Loc

Heterogorgia verrucosa

Verrill 1868
1868
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