Genus Calcigorgia Broch, 1935

Calcigorgia Broch 1935: 22; 1940: 11, 19; Bayer 1981: 920 (in key only).

Diagnosis. Acanthogorgiidae having non-retractile polyps without spine-like sclerites projecting around summit of

polyps; tentacular sclerites are scales or absent; polyp and coenenchymal sclerites in the form of stout tuberculate spindles, occasionally club like, those of polyps not en chevron.