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Pinnigorgia Grasshoff and Alderslade 1997
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Description
Genus Pinnigorgia Grasshoff and Alderslade, 1997
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Pinnate colonies (Figure 5C–E). Similar diagnostic characters to Muriceopsis (Figures 5A, B, 6). Spiny spindles from the surface always bent; spines flattened (Figures 7, 8). Type species Plexaura flava Nutting. Indo-Pacific reefs (Pinnigorgia flava [Nutting], P. platysoma [Nutting], and P. perroteti [Stiasny]), Indonesia, Timor Sea, Great Barrier Reef, Micronesia, and the Philipines (Fabricius and Alderslade 2001).
Notes
Published as part of Sánchez, Juan A., 2007, A new genus of Atlantic octocorals (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae): systematics of gorgoniids with asymmetric sclerites, pp. 493-509 in Journal of Natural History 41 (9 - 12) on page 501, DOI: 10.1080/00222930701237315, http://zenodo.org/record/5233906
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Grasshoff and Alderslade
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Alcyonacea
- Family
- Gorgoniidae
- Genus
- Pinnigorgia
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pinnigorgia and, 1997 sec. Sánchez, 2007
References
- Grasshoff M, Alderslade P. 1997. Gorgoniidae of Indo-Pacific reefs with descriptions of two new genera (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Senckenbergiana Biologica 77: 23 - 25.
- Fabricius K, Alderslade P. 2001. Soft corals and sea fans: a comprehensive guide to the tropical shallow water genera of the central-west Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Melbourne: New Litho.