Species Villogorgia intricata (Gray, 1869)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Brandella intricata Gray, J.E. 1869. Descriptions of some new genera and species of alcyonoid corals in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 3: 21-23 [23].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1924.2.27.1 dry specimen; BMNH 1924.2.27.2 dry specimen.

Generic Combinations

• Villogorgia intricata (Gray, 1869). —
  Ridley, S. 1882. Contributions to the knowledge of the Alcyonaria with descriptions of new species from the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 9: 184-193 [188]

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

Taxonomic note

Gray's original description of Brandella intricata gives the location as Bass Strait, Dewi Reef. Its seems very likely that the reference to Bass Strait is an error as Australian specimens identified with this species have only been found on the Great Barrier Reef. Indeed, in the Australian/Indo-Pacific region at least, the genus has only ever been recorded from tropical and subtropical waters.

Among other occurences, Dewi is a name sometimes given to Indonesian females. It is therefore not impossible that Dewi Reef, if the correct location for the holotype, is in Indonesian waters.


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