Table 2. Bathymetric range and biodiversity within the monophyletic, deep-sea Chrysogorgiidae (MCC).
| Genus | Data source | N. | Depth (m) | Total | Atl. | Ind. | Pac. | Ant. |
| Chrysogorgia | morphology | 615 (1589) | 31–4327 | 63 | 13 | 5 | 51 | 1 |
| mtMutS gene | 101 | 101–3860 | 41 | 11 | 0 | 31 | 0 | |
| Metallogorgia | morphology | 120 (159) | 570–2262 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| mtMutS gene | 64 | 810–2262 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Iridogorgia | morphology | 40 (49) | 567–2311 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| mtMutS gene | 25 | 752–2311 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| Rhodaniridogorgia | morphology | 5 (6) | 568–2229 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| mtMutS gene | 2 | 663–2229 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Radicipes | morphology | 78 (208) | 196–3580 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| mtMutS gene | 16 | 308–3000 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| Pseudochrysogorgia | morphology | 3 (5) | 861–1429 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| mtMutS gene | 5 | 861–1429 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Diversity: morphology estimate based on number of nominal species; genetic estimate based on number of mtMutS haplotypes. N: sample size (morphology: number of biogeographic records, and minimum number of colonies in parentheses), Atl: Atlantic Ocean, Ind: Indian Ocean, Pac: Pacific Ocean, Ant: Antarctic Ocean. Some depth estimates are based on depth ranges from trawling stations, in which case minimum and maximum depths were averaged (see notes in the Material and Methods section).