AnimaliaAlcyonaceaParagorgiidaeHorvathElizabeth AnneA 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, and Calcaxonia – Part I: Introduction, species of Scleraxonia and Holaxonia (Family Acanthogorgiidae)Zookeys047201986016610.3897/zookeys.860.19961 Sibogagorgia Stiasny, 1937 Sibogagorgia Stiasny, 1937b: 80. Sánchez 2005: 60. Herrera et al. 2010: 132.Type species.

Sibogagorgiaweberi Stiasny, 1937b: 80 [= Suberia köllikeri Nutting, 1911: 13, nec Studer 1879].

Diagnosis.

A genus in the family Paragorgiidae with scleritic medulla showing no (or very few, one to two) large penetration canals; main solenia around subsurface/outer medulla as boundary canals, forming reticulate network; network of canals observable with light microscopy as a regularly reticulate and uniform mesh just beneath surface. Polyps without tentacular sclerites, outer surface with radiate sclerites; generally, medullary sclerites nearly bare of ornamentation. Autozooid polyps uniformly to randomly distributed along branches, throughout colony. Branching colonies often in one plane (but not always); main branches usually thicker than terminals; terminals clavate. Coloration either of uniform beige or bright orange-red to a beige coloring with slightly projected pinkish orange polyp apertures.

SánchezJA (2005) Systematics of the bubblegum corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Paragorgiidae) with description of new species from New Zealand and the Eastern Pacific.Zootaxa1014: 172. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1014.1.1HerreraSBacoASánchezJA (2010) Molecular systematics of the bubblegum coral genera (Paragorgiidae, Octocorallia) and description of a new deep-sea species.Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution55(1): 123135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2009.12.007StuderT (1879) Ubersicht der AnthozoaAlcyonaria, welche wahrend der Reise SMS ‘Gazelle’ um die Erde gesammelt wurden. Monatsbericht der Könilich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Sept.-Okt.1878: 632688. [pls 1–5]