Phyllogorgia Milne-Edwards and Haime, 1850
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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930903441160 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/554D1963-FFCD-FFCE-FE59-F60E0C1567DD |
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Felipe |
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Phyllogorgia Milne-Edwards and Haime, 1850 |
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Genus Phyllogorgia Milne-Edwards and Haime, 1850 View in CoL
Diagnosis
Planar colonies. Branching pinnate, ramification pinnate, lax, with branch axes loosely anastomosing. Coenenchyme almost always forming more or less continuous lamina, by filling in meshes of axes net. Coenenchymal sclerites scaphoids with echinulate convex profile, and stout spindles with girdles of tubercles ( Bayer 1961: 271).
Type species
Gorgonia dilatata Esper, 1806 , by original designation.
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