Chrysogorgia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Calcaxonia
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Phylum: Cnidaria Classis: Anthozoa Subclassis: Octocorallia Ordo: Alcyonacea Subordo: Calcaxonia

Familia: Chrysogorgiidae
Genus: Chrysogorgia
Species (74): C. abludo – C. acanthella – C. admete – C. agassizii – C. anastomosans – C. antarctica – C. arborescens – C. arboriformis – C. artospira – C. averta – C. axillaris – C. binata – C. bracteata – C. calypso – C. campanula – C. carolinensis – C. cavea – C. chryseis – C. comans – C. constricta – C. cupressa – C. curvata – C. cylindrata – C. debilis – C. delicata – C. desbonni – C. dichotoma – C. dispersa – C. electra – C. elegans – C. excavata – C. expansa – C. fewkesii – C. flavescens – C. flexilis – C. fruticosa – C. geniculata – C. herdendorfi – C. indica – C. intermedia – C. irregularis – C. japonica – C. laevorsa – C. lata – C. midas – C. minuta – C. mixta – C. monticola – C. multiflora – C. octagonos – C. okinosensis – C. orientalis – C. papillosa – C. pellucida – C. pendula – C. pentasticha – C. pinnata – C. pusilla – C. pyramidalis – C. quadruplex – C. ramificans – C. ramosa – C. rigida – C. rotunda – C. scintillans – C. sibogae – C. sphaerica – C. spiculosa – C. squamata – C. stellata – C. tenuis – C. tetrasticha – C. thyrsiformis – C. tricaulis – C. tuberculata – C. upsilonia – C. versluysi

Name

Chrysogorgia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864

Type species: Chrysogorgia desbonni Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (by monotypy)

Synonyms (1)

Dasygorgia Verrill, 1883: 21

Distribution

Cosmopolitan.

References

Primary references

Duchassaing de Fonbressin, E.P. & Michelotti, G. 1864. Supplément au mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. Imprimerie Royale. Extrait des Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de Turin. Série II, Tome XXII: 1–112 BHL Reference page. [see page 13]

Additional references

Cairns, S.D. 2001. Studies om western Atlantic Octocorallia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). part 1: The genus Chrysogorgia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 114 (3): 746-787. BHL.Reference page.
Cairns, S.D. 2007. Calcaxonian Octocorals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from the Eastern Pacific seamounts. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 58(25): 511–541. PDF Reference page.
Cairns, S.D. 2018. Deep-Water Octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the Galápagos and Cocos Islands. Part 1: Suborder Calcaxonia. Zookeys, 729: 1–46. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.729.21779. Reference page. [p. 31-32]
Verrill, A.E. 1883. Report on the Anthozoa, and on some additional species dredged by the "Blake" in 1877-1879, and by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Fish Hawk" in 1880-82. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 11: 1-72, plates I-VIII. BHL Reference page. [see page 21 as Chrysogorgia and as Dasygorgia]
Xu, Y., Li, Y., Zhan, Z-F. & Xu, K-D. 2019. Morphology and phylogenetic analysis of two new deep-sea species of Chrysogorgia (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Chrysogorgiidae) from Kocebu Guyot (Magellan seamounts) in the Pacific Ocean. ZooKeys, 881: 91–107. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.881.34759 Reference page.
Xu, Y., Zhan, Z-F. & Xu, K-D. 2020. Morphology and phylogenetic analysis of five deep-sea golden gorgonians (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Chrysogorgiidae) in the Western Pacific Ocean, with the description of a new species. ZooKeys, 989: 1–37. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.989.53104 Reference page.

Links

Chrysogorgia in the World Register of Marine Species

BHL bibliography
Chrysogorgia – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Chrysogorgia.
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