Genus Villogorgia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860

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• Villogorgia Duchassaing De Fombressin, P. & Michelotti, J. 1860. Mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. Turin : Imprimerie Royale pp. 1–89, X pls. [reprint from the Memorie dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, 1861, Ser. 2, vol. 19, pp. 279–365] [32].

  Type species:

   Villogorgia nigrescens Duchassaing & Michelloti, 1860 by monotypy.
• Brandella 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 [22].

  Type species:

   Brandella intricata Gray, 1869 by monotypy.
• Perisceles Wright, E.P. & Studer, T. in Studer, T. 1887. Versuch eines Systemes der Alcyonaria. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 53(1): 1-74 [57].
• Acamptogorgia Wright, E.P. & Studer, Th. 1889. Report on the Alcyonaria collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 31: 1-314 [115] [replacement name; for Perisceles Wright & Studer, 1887].

  Type species:

   Menacella arbuscular Gray (manuscript) by subsequent designation, see Kükenthal, W. 1924. Gorgonaria. Das Tierreich 47: 1-478 [192].
• Paracamptogorgia Kükenthal, W. 1919. Gorgonaria. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 13(2): 1-946 [840].

  Type species:

   Muricea bebrycoides Koch, 1887 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bayer, F.M. 1956. Octocorallia, with a section on Trachypsammicea. pp. F166-F231 in Moore, R. C. (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Coelenterata. Kansas : University of Kansas Press. [F210]

Systematics

Because Perisceles was preoccupied with a genus of Coleoptera, Wright & Studer published Acamptogorgia as a replacement name before any species had been assigned to it.

History of changes