Paragorgiidae Kuekenthal , 1916

Horvath, Elizabeth Anne, 2019, A review of gorgonian coral species (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) held in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History research collection: focus on species from Scleraxonia, Holaxonia, and Calcaxonia - Part I: Introduction, species of Scleraxonia and Holaxonia (Family Acanthogorgiidae), ZooKeys 860, pp. 1-66 : 1

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.860.19961

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scientific name

Paragorgiidae Kuekenthal , 1916
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Family Paragorgiidae Kuekenthal, 1916 View in CoL

Diagnosis.

Robust, profusely branched colonies with dimorphic polyps (feeding autozooids, reproductive siphonozooids). Axial skeletal structure solely a continuous medulla, containing separable sclerites. Medulla perforated by gastrodermal canals all the way to branch tips, not separated from cortex by a ring of boundary canals.