Pacifigorgia Bayer 1951
Creators
- 1. Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, P. O. Box 1962 - 2100, San José, Costa Rica, odalisca @ racsa. co. cr Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute P. O. Box 2072, Balboa, Panamá, guzmanh @ naos. si. edu
Description
Pacifigorgia Bayer, 1951
Synonymy. See Breedy and Guzman 2002: 791.
Diagnosis. Adapted from Bayer (1951: 94): Colony flabellate branched in one or several perpendicular planes. Branches regularly anastomosed to form a network of variable sized mesh. Polyps retractile within low calyces or flush with the surface of the coenenchyme. Coenenchymal sclerites basically of 4 kinds: long spindles with acute ends and several whorls of warts; blunt spindles, long or short with several whorls of warts; and girdled capstans with different levels of complexity. Anthocodial sclerites are flattened rods with smooth, scalloped, serrated or lobed margins.
Distribution. From Bayer (1951): Eastern Pacific, from southern California to Chile and the Galápagos Islands; Atlantic coast from Trinidad to Brazil.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Gorgoniidae
- Genus
- Pacifigorgia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Alcyonacea
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Bayer
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pacifigorgia Bayer, 1951 sec. Breedy & Guzman, 2003
References
- Bayer, F. M. (1951) A revision of the nomenclature of the Gorgoniidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) with an illustrated key to the genera. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 41, 91 - 102.
- Breedy, O. & Guzman, H. M. (2002) A Revision of the genus Pacifigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 115, 787 - 844.