Nidaliidae

Devictor, Susan T. & Morton, Steve L., 2010, Identification guide to the shallow water (0 - 200 m) octocorals of the South Atlantic Bight 2599, Zootaxa 2599 (1), pp. 1-62 : 19

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2599.1.1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A887A7-FFDC-7D5D-2A81-FBA361C9FAB0

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scientific name

Nidaliidae
status

 

Family Nidaliidae View in CoL

While most nidaliids form branching colonies, species of Nidallia have capitate colonies with a stiff or firm texture and prominent calyces, bearing retractable polyps, in a terminal cluster. Refer to Verseveldt and Bayer (1988) for some revisions within this family.

The family is represented by only one species in the SAB, Nidalia occidentalis Gray, 1835 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Alcyonacea

Family

Nidaliidae

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