Radicipes Stearns, 1883

Cordeiro, Ralf T. S., Castro, Clovis B. & Pérez, Carlos D., 2015, Deep-water octocorals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) from Brazil: Family Chrysogorgiidae Verrill, 1883, Zootaxa 4058 (1), pp. 81-100 : 94

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.1.4
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3500372
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scientific name	Radicipes Stearns, 1883
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Genus Radicipes Stearns, 1883 View in CoL

Diagnosis: Chrysogorgiidae growing normally in the form of simple whip-like colonies, with the base divided into calcareous root-like processes. Coenenchyme slender, with oblong scales sclerites. Well-separated, elongated polyps, oblique, with sclerites in the form of spindles or rods (Verrill, 1922, modified).

Type species: Radicipes pleurocristatus Stearns, 1883

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Cnidaria
Class	Anthozoa
Order	Alcyonacea
Family	Chrysogorgiidae

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