Leptogorgia Milne-Edwards and Haime, 1857
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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).
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Leptogorgia Milne-Edwards and Haime, 1857
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Gorgonia viminalis
| Verrill AE 1868: 420 |