Leptogorgia Milne-Edwards and Haime, 1857

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 : 797-798

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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930903441160

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scientific name

Leptogorgia Milne-Edwards and Haime, 1857
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Genus Leptogorgia Milne-Edwards and Haime, 1857 View in CoL

Diagnosis

Sclerites of coenenchyme and coenenchymal mounds as symmetrically tuberculated spindles; slightly bent spindles, asymmetrically sculptured spindles; spindles with some warts fused into disks present in some species. Anthocodial armature of small rods and platelets. Colonies with holdfast, attached to hard bottoms, more or less branched, branches not anostomosing; some species with or without holdfast, attached or lying; several species always without holdfast, “filiform”, growing from both ends. ( Grasshoff 1988: 97).

Type species

Gorgonia viminalis Pallas, 1766 View in CoL , by subsequent designation ( Verrill 1868b: 420).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Alcyonacea

Family

Gorgoniidae

Loc

Leptogorgia Milne-Edwards and Haime, 1857

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

Gorgonia viminalis

Verrill AE 1868: 420
1868
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