Fannyella (Scyphogorgia), Cairns and Bayer, 2009

details, Publication, authors, including instructions for, information, subscription, http, www. tandfonline. com, loi & tnah 20, 2010, Designation of Thouarella abies Broch, 1965 as the type species of the subgenus Fannyella (Scyphogorgia) Cairns and Bayer, 2009, and description of a new genus for Stenella (Dasystenella) liouvillei Gravier, 1913 (Octocorallia: Primnoidae), Journal of Natural History 44 (33 - 34), pp. 1995-2013 : 2004

Subgenus Scyphogorgia Cairns and Bayer, 2009

Diagnosis (from Cairns and Bayer 2009)

Bottlebrush colonies, with a discoidal base usually attached to a hard substrate. Polyps arranged in whorls; calyces appressed, facing upward not fused basally. Small operculum present, distal inner surface of operculars multiridged, without keel. Operculars aligned with marginal scales. Eight marginal ascus scales, with transverse ridge separating smooth distal portion from tuberculate proximal portion, fold over the operculum, forming a circumoperculum; distal margin spinose, inner surface with a longitudinal keel. Polyps protected by eight imbricate longitudinal rows of body wall ascus scales; two abaxial rows with a variable number of scales in each row, usually more than five. The abaxial submarginals also spinose; those more proximal with spines progressively less prominent. Perimeter of cup-like structure of ascus scales finely serrated. Adaxial row quite short but present, resulting in complete coverage of the polyp. Coenenchymal scales in two layers: outer layer composed of plates with a smooth outer surface, inner layer composed of tuberculate spindles that compose the walls of longitudinal stem canals.

Type species

Fannyella abies ( Broch, 1965) , here designated (see Discussion).