Astrogorgia
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Ordo: Alcyonacea
Familia: Plexauridae
Name
Astrogorgia Verrill, 1868 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Astrogorgia Verrill, 1868b: 414; Verrill 1870[1]: 77–78; Bayer 1981[2]: 931 (in key); Grasshoff 1999[3]: 38; 2000[4]: 67; Fabricius and Alderslade 2001[5]: 210–213; Hermanlimianto and Ofwegen 2006[6]: 103.
- Muricella Kükenthal, 1924: 169.
- Acanthomuricea Fabricius & Alderslade, 2001: 212.
Type species
Astrogorgia sinensis Verrill, 1868b by monotypy.
Diagnosis
[based on Grasshoff (2000)[4], Fabricius and Alderslade (2001)[5], Hermanlimianto and Ofwegen (2006)[6]]. Colonies growing in one plane as open fans, with irregular lateral branching, never net-like. Polyps retractile into raised calyces, arranged in rows or all around the branches. Coenenchymal sclerites mostly spindles, straight, curved, branched, heavily ornamented with complex tubercles, and prickles; and smaller spindles and some capstans in the inner-coenenchyme. Anthocodiae with numerous flattened sclerites around the tentacle bases and up the tentacles in numerous oblique rows. Collaret does not occur. Colour of the colonies, various hues of red, orange, yellow, whitish or yellowish brown.
Taxon Treatment
- Breedy, O; Guzman, H; 2015: A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited ZooKeys, (537): 1-32. doi
Other References
- ↑ Verrill A (1870) Synopsis of the polyps and corals of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, under Commodore C. Ringgold and Captain John Rogers, U.S.N., from 1853 to 1856. Collected by Dr. Wm. Stimpson, naturalist of the Expedition. With description of some additional species from the west coast of North America. Proceedings of the Essex Institute, Salem 6: 75–82.
- ↑ Bayer F (1981) Key to the genera of Octocorallia exclusive of Pennatulacea (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) with diagnoses of new taxa. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94(3): 902–947.
- ↑ Grasshoff M (1999) The shallow water gorgonians of New Caledonia and adjacent islands (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Senckenbergiana Biolologica 78(1/2): 1–245.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Grasshoff M (2000) The gorgonians of the Sinai coast and the Strait of Gubal, Red Sea (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 224: 1–125.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Fabricius K, Alderslade P (2001) Soft Corals and Sea Fans: A Comprehensive Guide to the tropical shallow-water genera of the Central-West Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Queensland, Australia, 264 pp.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hermanlimianto M, Ofwegen L (2006) A new species of Astrogorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Plexauridae) from Bali. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 80–4(10): 103–1.
