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

Family Nidaliidae

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 .