Callogorgia Gray 1858
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Genus Callogorgia Gray, 1858
Callogorgia Gray, 1858: 286.— Bayer, 1982: 119 –123 (key to Indo-Pacific species).— Cairns & Bayer, 2002: 841 –845; 2009: 40.— Cairns, 2010: 425 (Hawaiian species); 2016b: 58 (New Zealand species); 2018: 6 (key to Indo-Pacific species).— Cairns & Wirshing, 2018: 8, 18, fig. 4o.
Fanellia Gray, 1870: 46.— Bayer, 1982: 134 –135 (key to species).— Bayer & Stefani, 1989: 470 –471 (key to genus and all species).— Cairns & Bayer, 2009: 40 –41.— Cairns & Wirshing, 2018: 8, 18.
Type Species. Gorgonia verticillata Pallas, 1766, by monotypy.
Diagnosis. Colonies uniplanar, pinnately or dichotomously branched. Polyps arranged in pairs or whorls of up to 16, all polyps facing upward. Polyps covered by eight longitudinal rows of body wall scales, the number of scales per row decreasing from ab- to adaxial polyp side. Body wall scales granular, smooth, pitted, tuberculate, or covered with tall ridges (cristate) for all or part of polyp. Inner side of opercular scales convex, covered with a multiply serrate keel.
Discussion. With the recent synonymy of Fanellia with Callogorgia, the genus now contains 38 species (Cairns & Wirshing 2018, Cairns 2018). A key to the 22 Indo-Pacific species was recently published by Cairns (2018). Discussions of the genus are included in Cairns & Bayer (2009) and Cairns (2018).
Distribution. Indo-Pacific, Atlantic, 37–2472 m.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Alcyonacea
- Family
- Primnoidae
- Genus
- Callogorgia
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- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Callogorgia Gray, 1858 sec. Cairns, 2018
References
- Bayer, F. M. (1982) Some new and old species of the primnoid genus Callogorgia Gray, with a revalidation of the related genus Fanellia Gray (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 95 (1), 116 - 160.
- Cairns, S. D. & Bayer, F. M. (2002) Studies on western Atlantic Octocorallia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). Part 2: The genus Callogorgia Gray, 1858. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 115 (4), 840 - 867.
- Cairns, S. D. (2010) A review of the Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from Hawai'i and adjacent seamounts, Part 3: The genera Thouarella, Plumarella, Callogorgia, Fanellia, and Parastenella. Pacific Science, 64 (3), 413 - 440. https: // doi. org / 10.2984 / 64.3.413
- Cairns, S. D. & Wirshing, H. H. (2018) A phylogenetic analysis of the Primnoidae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Calcaxonia) with analyses of character evolution and a key to the genera and subgenera. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18 (66), 1 - 20. https: // doi. org / 10.1186 / s 12862 - 018 - 1182 - 5
- Gray, J. E. (1870) Catalogue of the Lithophytes or Stony Corals in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum, London, 51 pp.
- Bayer, F. M. & Stefani, J. (1989) Primnoidae (Gorgonacea) de Nouvelle-Caledonie. Bulletin de Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, Series 4, 10 (3), 449 - 518.
- Cairns, S. D. & Bayer, F. M. (2009) A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Primnoidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 629, 1 - 79. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.629