Species Pinnigorgia flava (Nutting, 1910)

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Regional Maps

• Plexaura flava Nutting, C.C. 1910. The Gorgonacea of the Siboga Expedition IV The Plexauridae. Siboga Expéditie Monographie 13bl: 1-20 [8].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMA COEL 3065a one colony in alcohol; ZMA COEL 3065b one colony in alcohol; ZMA COEL 3066 two fragments in alcohol; ZMA COEL 3067 one fragment in alcohol; ZMA COEL 3065c several small fragments in alcohol.
• Euplexaura timorensis Aurivillius, M. 1931. The gorgonarians from Dr. Sixten Bock's expedition to Japan and Bonin Islands 1914. Arkiv för Zoologi utgifvet af Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademien 3 9(4): 1-337 [236].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM 1119 two fronds in alcohol.

Generic Combinations

• Pinnigorgia flava (Nutting, 1910). —
  Grasshoff, M. & Alderslade, P. 1997. Gorgoniidae of Indo-Pacific Reefs with description of two new genera. Senckenbergiana Biologica 77(1): 23-35 [28]
• Euplexaura flava (Nutting, 1910). —
  Kükenthal, W. 1924. Gorgonaria. Das Tierreich 47: 1-478 [100]

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

Taxonomic note

+ NTM Ashmore; cartier;

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