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.