Olindagorgia Bayer, 1981c
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Felipe |
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Olindagorgia Bayer, 1981c |
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Genus Olindagorgia Bayer, 1981c View in CoL
Diagnosis
Small Gorgoniids, with loosely pinnate branching, rarely anastomosing. Polyps biserial, usually alternate, retractile within hemispherical coenenchymal mounds, coenenchymal sclerites including scaphoids with convex surface weakly undulated and acute spindles with compound tubercles in whorls; anthocodiae armed with small flat rods with more or less distinctly spatulate ends ( Bayer 1981c: 922).
Type species
Pseudopterogorgia marcgravii Bayer, 1961 (= Pterogorgia gracilis Verrill, 1868a ), by original monotypy.
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Olindagorgia Bayer, 1981c
Castro, C. B., Medeiros, M. S. & Loiola, L. L. 2010 |
Pseudopterogorgia marcgravii
Bayer 1961 |
Pterogorgia gracilis
Verrill 1868 |