Armadillogorgia Bayer 1980

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: Cerino, Nadia, Lauretta, Daniel
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Alcyonacea; Primnoidae; Armadillogorgia; Scotia Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5658353; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/EB5A460D4C43715BFF37FAA6A9FC2651

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. Published as part of Cerino, Nadia & Lauretta, Daniel, 2013, Armadillogorgia albertoi sp. nov.: a new primnoid from the Argentinean deep sea, pp. 369-376 in Zootaxa 3741 (3) on page 370, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3741.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/215927