Elasmogorgia Wright & Studer, 1889

Matsumoto, Asako K. & van Ofwegen, Leen P., 2016, Species of Elasmogorgia and Euplexaura (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) from Japan with a discussion about the genus Filigella, ZooKeys 589, pp. 1-21 : 4

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scientific name	Elasmogorgia Wright & Studer, 1889
status

Treatment

Taxon classification Animalia Alcyonacea Plexauridae

Genus Elasmogorgia Wright & Studer, 1889 View in CoL

Elasma (non Elasma Jaennicke 1866); Studer (and P. Wright) 1887: 58.

Elasmogorgia Wright & Studer, 1899: 132; Kükenthal 1919: 836; Soest 1979: 88.

Elasmogorgia ? Elasmogorgia ; Hickson 1905: 814; Thomson and Simpson 1909: 238; Thomson and Russell 1910: 159; Nutting 1912: 85.

Elasmogorgia NOT Elasmogorgia ; Nutting 1909: 717; 1910: 45; 1912: 85; Thomson and Dean 1931: 199.

Elasmogorgia Partly Elasmogorgia ; Kükenthal 1924: 148.

Diagnosis.

Plexauridae with sparsely branched colonies lacking a holdfast. Calyces dome-shaped. Polyps with collaret and points. Sclerites are colourless spindles.