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Parasphaerascleridae McFadden & Ofwegen 2013
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Description
Family Parasphaerascleridae McFadden & Ofwegen, 2013
Diagnosis. Soft corals with a digitiform, digitate or lobate growth form. Usually with a bare stalk, which can be indistinct. Polyps monomorphic, retractile, producing small, coenenchymal mounds when retracted. Permanent calyces absent. Sclerites of colony surface and interior predominantly radiates and/or tuberculate spheroids, occasionally along with rodlets and crosses. Sclerites permanently coloured. Polyp sclerites absent. Azooxanthellate. (adapted from McFadden & Ofwegen 2013).
Notes
Published as part of Bryce, Monika, Poliseno, Angelo, Alderslade, Philip & Vargas, Sergio, 2015, Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records, pp. 160-200 in Zootaxa 3963 (2) on page 163, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/288659
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- McFadden & Ofwegen
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Alcyonacea
- Family
- Parasphaerascleridae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Parasphaerascleridae McFadden, 2013 sec. Bryce, Poliseno, Alderslade & Vargas, 2015
References
- McFadden, C. S. & Ofwegen, L. P. (2013) Molecular phylogenetic evidence supports a new family of octocorals and a new genus of Alcyoniidae (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). ZooKeys, 346, 59 - 83. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 346.6270