Elasmogorgia Wright & Studer, 1889
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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.
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