Plumigorgia schuboti

Super Group: 
Eukaryota
Phylum: 
Cnidaria
Class: 
Anthozoa
Order: 
Alcyonacea
Family: 
Ifalukellidae
Genus: 
Plumigorgia
Species: 
schuboti
Authority: 
Alderslade, 1986

Diagnosis

Colonies pinnately branched, planar to compressed or bushy with small calcifi ed holdfasts. Axis calcifi ed, but fl exible. Polyps monomorphic, small, forming low mounds or completely retractile within the general coenenchyme and may have sclerites. Coenenchyme may be very thin or very thick. Sclerites absent to abundant, small, occurring in the shape of ovals, subspheroids, peanuts, crosses, multiradiate stars, and irregular shapes. Sclerites colourless.

Observation site(s)

SYMBIONTS

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Symbiodinium- clade C Great Barrier Reef
VAN OPPEN MJH, MIEOG JC, SANCHEZ CA, FABRICIUS KE (2005) Diversity of algal endosymbionts (zooxanthellae) in octocorals: the roles of geography and host relationships. Molecular Ecology 14:2403 - 2417. doi: 10.1111/mec.2005.14.issue-810.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02545.x