Fannyella Gray, 1872

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Genus Fannyella Gray, 1872

Diagnosis (modified from Bayer 1998, modifications in bold)

Primnoinae with uniplanar and dichotomously branching, often lyrate, also bottlebrush colonies. Polyps upward, appressed to stem, straight or adaxially incurved, and arranged in whorls or in spirals. Opercular scales eight in number. Marginal scales also eight in number, forming a circumoperculum that can fold over the operculars. Marginals and body scales distinctively shaped as ascus scales, aligned in eight longitudinal rows. Adaxial scales often reduced in size and number.