Pleurogorgia Versluys 1902
Nomenclature
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Order: CalcaxoniaFamily: Chrysogorgiidae Verrill, 1883
SUMMARY
Original Description by Versluys, 1902
Type species: Pleurogorgia plana.
Definition by Nutting, 1908, who described the second species of Pleurogorgia (militaris):
Genus PLEUROGORGIA Versluys.
Colony palmate; branchlets in a straight row on one side of branch, and all in the same plane; polyps arranged in a thickly set row on one side of branchlets.