Armadillogorgia Bayer 1980
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Description
Armadillogorgia Bayer, 1980
Diagnosis (Cairns & Bayer 2009, modifications in bold).
Colonies unbranched (flagelliform) or sparsely dichotomously branched. Calyces arranged in whorls of up to 20 calyces, facing upward and downward; adaxial side of calyces adnate to branch. Operculum not present nor are distinctive marginal scales; calycular aperture (mouth) a simple, unadorned pore. Polyp completely covered by sclerites, the abaxial body wall covered by two rows of up to 70 broad, smooth, sickle-shaped or J-shape sclerites that meet in an alternating (zigzag) pattern on calyx midline. Sclerites on adaxial and circumoral region scale-like but not arranged in rows or in any order. Coenenchyme composed of two layers of sclerites, an outer layer of goblet-shaped sclerites and oval sclerites; an inner layer of tuberculate spheroids.
Distribution. Southwest Atlantic and Scotia Sea, off South Georgia, from 659 to 1307 m depth.
Type species. Armadillogorgia cyathella Bayer, 1980 by original designation and monotypy.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3741.3.5 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/215927 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/17633E754C42715AFFA0FFD1AD2F214A (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/50B6C089-E45C-4E0A-B742-EF570137EA11 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/EB5A460D4C43715BFF37FAA6A9FC2651 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Primnoidae
- Genus
- Armadillogorgia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Alcyonacea
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Bayer
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Armadillogorgia Bayer, 1980 sec. Cerino & Lauretta, 2013