Gorgoniidae

Taxonavigation

Familia: Gorgoniidae
Genera: Adelogorgia – Antillogorgia – Eugorgia – Eunicella – Gorgonia – Guaiagorgia – Hicksonella – Leptogorgia – Olindagorgia – Pacifigorgia – Phycogorgia – Phyllogorgia – Pinnigorgia – Pseudopterogorgia – Pterogorgia – Rumphella

Name

Gorgoniidae Lamouroux, 1812

References

• Lamouroux, J.V.F. 1812. Extrait d'un mémoire sur la classification des Polypiers coralligènes non entièrement pierreux. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, publié par la Société Philomatique de Paris 3: 181–188. BHL Reference page. 
• Breedy, O.; Williams, G.C.; Guzman, H.M. 2013. Two new species of gorgonian octocorals from the Tropical Eastern Pacific Biogeographic Region (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Gorgoniidae). ZooKeys, 350: 75–90. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.350.6117 Reference page. 
• Castro, C.B. , M.S. Medeiros & L.L. Loiola 2010: Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from Brazilian reefs. Journal of Natural History 44 (13 & 14): 763–827. DOI: 10.1080/00222930903441160. Abstract: .
• Horvath, E.A. 2019. A review of gorgonian coral species (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) held in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History research collection: focus on species from Scleraxonia, Holaxonia, Calcaxonia – Part II: Species of Holaxonia, families Gorgoniidae and Plexauridae. Zookeys, 860: 67–182. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.860.33597 Reference page. 
• Sun, T-Z, Xu, Y., Xu, K-D., Chen, S., Xie, S-W. & Zhan, Z-F. 2024. A new gorgonian Pseudopterogorgia nanjiensis sp. nov. (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Gorgoniidae) from the Nanji Islands, China. ZooKeys 1213: 237–249. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1213.126841 Reference page. 
• Watling, L.; Rowley, S.; Guinotte, J. 2013: The World’s largest known Gorgonian. Zootaxa 3630(1): 198–199. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3630.1.10 Reference page. 

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