TY - JOUR T1 - New taxa and revisionary systematics of alcyonacean octocorals from the Pacific coast of North America (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) JF - ZooKeys JO - ZK M3 - 10.3897/zookeys.283.4803 VL - 283 AU - Williams, Gary C Y1 - 03/04/2013 UR - https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.283.4803 N2 - A taxonomic assessment of four species of octocorals from the northeastern Pacific Ocean (British Columbia to California) is provided. Included here are a new species of clavulariid stolonifieran Cryptophyton, a new species of the nephtheid soft coral Gersemia, an undetermined species of soft coral in the genus Alcyonium that has been referred in the literature by several other names, and a new genus is named for a plexaurid sea fan originally described in the Indo-Pacific genus Euplexaura. Discussions are included that compare the species to related taxa, or provide revisionary assessments. PB - Pensoft Publishers SP - 15-42 SN - 1313-2989 SN - 1313-2970 IS - ER -