Olindagorgia Bayer, 1981c

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 : 808

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930903441160

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scientific name

Olindagorgia Bayer, 1981c
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Genus Olindagorgia Bayer, 1981c View in CoL

Diagnosis

Small Gorgoniids, with loosely pinnate branching, rarely anastomosing. Polyps biserial, usually alternate, retractile within hemispherical coenenchymal mounds, coenenchymal sclerites including scaphoids with convex surface weakly undulated and acute spindles with compound tubercles in whorls; anthocodiae armed with small flat rods with more or less distinctly spatulate ends ( Bayer 1981c: 922).

Type species

Pseudopterogorgia marcgravii Bayer, 1961 (= Pterogorgia gracilis Verrill, 1868a ), by original monotypy.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Alcyonacea

Family

Gorgoniidae

Loc

Olindagorgia Bayer, 1981c

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

Pseudopterogorgia marcgravii

Bayer 1961
1961
Loc

Pterogorgia gracilis

Verrill 1868
1868
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