Pinnigorgia Grasshoff and Alderslade 1997

Abstract

Genus Pinnigorgia Grasshoff and Alderslade, 1997 (Figure 7) 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).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/523390