<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Virgulariidae Verrill 1868</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"/> </head> <body> <h1>Key to species of Virgulariidae in the South Atlantic Bight</h1> <p> 1. Colony stout and rigid, with leaves arranged in overlapping pairs along axis. Sclerites generally absent...................................................................................................................................................... <i>Virgularia presbytes</i> Bayer, 1955</p> <p> - Colony slender and flexible, leaves arranged in offset pairs distinctly separated along the axis. Sclerites in form of large needles, forming fan-like structures beneath leaves.................................. <i>Stylatula elegans</i> (Danielssen, 1860)</p> </body> </html>