PARAGORGIIDAE Kükenthal, 1916

JUAN ARMANDO SÁNCHEZ, 2005, Systematics of the bubblegum corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Paragorgiidae) with description of new species from New Zealand and the Eastern Pacific, Zootaxa 1014, pp. 1-72 : 15

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scientific name	PARAGORGIIDAE Kükenthal, 1916
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Diagnostic characters. Dimorphic octocorals, reproductive siphonozooids and feeding autozooids, without axial skeletal structures other than a medulla formed by unfused sclerites. Medulla surrounded by a cortex containing the gastric cavities of autozooids and siphonozooids. Profusely branched colonies.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Cnidaria
Class	Anthozoa
Order	Alcyonacea
Family	Paragorgiidae

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