Kölliker, 1865
Echinogorgia (3)
Type species: Echinogorgia pseudosasappoKölliker, 1865
Total number of species estimated: 50.
Description: Colonies forming fans, many with anastomoses. Main branches always with short side branches. Colour of colonies red-brown, yellow. Surface of coenenchyme with thornscales with about three thorn- or leaf-like projections. Internal sclerites are spindles and irregular types. Zooxanthellae absent.
Habitat: Reef slope.
Range: Tropical Indo-Pacific.
Remarks: Formerly, the genus Echinogorgia was used in a very broad sense, including as well Menella as Trimuricea.