Radicipes Stearns 1883
- Dataset
- A revision of the genus Radicipes Stearns, 1883 (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Chrysogorgiidae)
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Anthozoa
- order
- Alcyonacea
- family
- Chrysogorgiidae
- genus
- Radicipes
Radicipes Stearns 1883
Key to species of Radicipes Stearns, 1883
1. Sclerites virtually absent or rare in polyp body wall.................................................... R. spiralis
1a. Sclerites always present in polyp body wall................................................................. 2
2. Body wall sclerites predominantly long scales with irregular margins........................... R. aureus (Fig. 14 A,B)
2a. Body wall sclerites predominantly rods, flattened rods or scale-like rods with regular margins......................... 3
3. Body wall sclerites predominantly flattened to slightly rounded rods............................................. 4 3a. Body wall sclerites predominantly rounded rods, sometimes with one flattened tip.................................. 5 4. Fully developed polyps with body wall filled by sclerites longitudinally arranged in eight regular rows (adaxials less devel-