Filigorgia Stiasny, 1937

Sánchez, Juan A., 2007, A new genus of Atlantic octocorals (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae): systematics of gorgoniids with asymmetric sclerites, Journal of Natural History 41 (9 - 12), pp. 493-509 : 504

Genus Filigorgia Stiasny, 1937

Profusely branched pinnate colonies. Long, slim, and mostly straight asymmetrically spiny sclerites in the colony surface ( Figure 11 ). Surface coenenchyme with straight to slightly bent slim or robust spindles ornate with warts irregularly to zoned around the spindle ( Figures 11 , 12E, F ).

Figures

Figure 11. SEM stereopairs of gorgoniids with long and spiny spindles (Clade 4). (A, B) Filigorgia angolana (Senkenberg Museum Frankfurt, SMF 3865); (C, D) F. ridouri (SMF 5712). Scale bars: 0.1 mm (A, B, D); 0.02 (C).

Figure 12. Surface sclerites of several gorgonian corals. (A–D) Tobagorgia hardyi new species; (E, F) Filigorgia schoutedeni (Stiasny); (G) Leptogorgia virgulata Linnaeus. (A–F) SEM stereopairs. Scale bars: 0.02 mm.