Plumarella Gray, 1870

Horvath, Elizabeth Anne, 2019, A review of gorgonian coral species (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) held in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History research collection: focus on species from Scleraxonia, Holaxonia, Calcaxonia - Part III: Suborder Holaxonia continued, and suborder Calcaxonia, ZooKeys 860, pp. 183-306 : 247-248

Genus Plumarella Gray, 1870

Cricogorgia Milne Edwards, 1857: 6, pl B2, fig. 6 [nomen nudum]. Gray 1870: 36, 37.

Plumarella Gray, 1870: 36. Studer 1887: 51. Wright and Studer 1889: xlix, 73, 74, 281. Versluys 1906: 13, 14. Kinoshita 1908a: 6-8. Kükenthal 1915b: 144, 145 [key to genus and species]; 1919: 340-343 [key to genus and species]; 1924: 255 [key to genus and species]. Diechmann 1936: 155, 156 [key to genus]. Bayer 1956: F220; 1961: 293 [ill. key to genus]; 1981: 936 [key to genus]. Bayer and Stefani 1988: 454 [key to genus]. Fabricius and Alderslade 2001: 244, 245. Cairns and Bayer 2004b: 448, 449 [key to western Atlantic species]; Cairns and Bayer 2009: 29, 39, 40. Cairns 2011: 7-9; 2016: 51, 52; 2018b: 39. Cairns and Wirshing 2018: 1, 11.

Type species.

Gorgonia penna Lamarck, 1815; subsequent designation by Wright & Studer, 1889: 73.

Diagnosis.

Branching in one plane, pinnate, with branches close together in many colonies. Polyps biserial, alternate (rarely, opposite) or irregularly scattered; never in whorls or pairs. All eight rows of body scales present; adaxial surface usually has fewer scales; inner face of opercular scales with inconspicuous apical keel, or none; opercular scales aligned with marginals. Sclerites of coenenchyme (some species) as scales or warty radiates in lower parts of colony and inner cortex.

Remarks.

Genus bears accepted status in WoRMS Database (Cordeiro et al. 2019).