Family Parasphaerascleridae McFadden & Ofwegen, 2013

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).