Trichogorgia Hickson, 1904
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/554D1963-FFC7-FFC4-FE33-F1840D4F6570 |
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Felipe |
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Trichogorgia Hickson, 1904 |
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Genus Trichogorgia Hickson, 1904 View in CoL
Diagnosis
Chrysogorgiids branched in one plane, colonies flabellate, lyrate, with long terminal branches. Axis with or without calcareous deposits, becoming very thin and flexible in terminal branches. Coenenchymal mounds biserial or on all sides of terminal and subterminal branches, widely spaced or more crowded terminally. Sclerites present or absent; if present, in the form of very thin double disks or double pads, with finely serrated edges ( Bayer and Muzik 1976: 79).
Type species
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Trichogorgia Hickson, 1904
| Castro, C. B., Medeiros, M. S. & Loiola, L. L. 2010 |
Trichogorgia flexilis
| Hickson 1904 |