Gray, 1857

Subergorgia

Type species: Subergorgia suberosa (Pallas, 1766)

Total number of species estimated: 5

Description: Colonies arborescent, forming fans or bushes. Colour of colonies orange, brown or red. In some species there is a narrow furrow visible on the branches. Surface layer and internal layer with tuberculate spindles. Axis is made up of smooth, branched, anastomosing sclerites that are embedded in a gorgonin matrix. Zooxanthellae absent.

Habitat: On slopes and deeper parts of the reef.

Range: Tropical Indo-Pacific

Remarks: Recently, Grasshoff (1999) placed the species of Subergorgia forming netlike fans in Annella.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Cnidaria
Class Anthozoa
Subclass Octocorallia
Order Alcyonacea
Family Subergorgiidae
Genus Subergorgia

Sorry, there are no scientific synonyms and common names available for this taxon

Fabricius, K. & P. Alderslade, 2001. Soft corals & sea fans: a comprehensive guide to the tropical shallow water genera of the central-west Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Australian Institute of Marine Science, pp. i-vii + 1-264.

Grasshoff, M. & G. Bargibant, 2001. Coral reef gorgonians of New Caledonia. Paris, Editions de l’IRD, 335 pp.

Grasshoff, M., 1999. The shallow water gorgonians of New Caledonia and adjacent islands (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Senckenbergiana Biologica 78: 1-245.

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