“Rhodelinda, new genus
Sarcodictyon.—Gohar, 1940:12 [part].
Diagnosis.—Anthosteles tall, simple, slightly clavate, with thin, brittle walls formed by inseparably fused sclerites, arising from ribbonlike stolons encrusting solid objects; fused, tuberculate spindles forming body walls arranged en chevron in 8 longitudinal tracts; basal part of gastric cavity with more or less extensive intrusion of mesogloea containing partially fused, irregularly branching sclerites not forming a firm calcareous lattice; anthocodiae fully retractile, armed with slender, thorny spindles converging in 8 points, the proximal ones becoming more or less transverse; color red, pink or white.
Type-species.—Sarcodictyon gardineri var. rosea Gohar, 1940.
Etymology.—From Greek ρόδον, rose + meaningless suffix; gender, feminine.
Distribution.—Southern Ocean.”
(Bayer, 1981)
Rhodelinda is een geslacht van koralen uit de familie van de Clavulariidae.
Rhodelinda is een geslacht van koralen uit de familie van de Clavulariidae.
