Marine Species Traits - Pinnigorgia flava (Nutting, 1910)

WoRMS taxon details

Pinnigorgia flava (Nutting, 1910)

AphiaID

517763 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:517763)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pinnigorgia Grasshoff & Alderslade, 1997

Original name

Plexaura flava Nutting, 1910

Synonymised names

Euplexaura flava (Nutting, 1910) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Plexaura flava Nutting, 1910 · unaccepted > superseded combination (original combination)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Plexaura flava Nutting, 1910) Nutting, C.C. (1910). The Gorgonacea of the Siboga expedition. IV. The Plexauridae. Siboga-Expeditie. 13b(1): 1-20, plates 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2186031
page(s): 8-9 [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Pinnigorgia flava (Nutting, 1910). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=517763 on 2025-05-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-09-14 06:22:56Z

created

van Ofwegen, Leen

2019-07-03 19:32:13Z

changed

Cordeiro, Ralf

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Plexaura flava Nutting, 1910) Nutting, C.C. (1910). The Gorgonacea of the Siboga expedition. IV. The Plexauridae. Siboga-Expeditie. 13b(1): 1-20, plates 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2186031
page(s): 8-9 [details]

new combination reference Grasshoff, M.; Alderslade, P. (1997). Gorgoniidae of Indo-Pacific reefs with descriptions of two new genera (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Senckenbergiana Biologica. 77: 23–25. [details]

Other

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Sánchez, J. A. (2007). A new genus of Atlantic octocorals (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae): systematics of gorgoniids with asymmetric sclerites. Journal of Natural History. 41(9-12): 493-509., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930701237315
page(s): 499, 501 [details] Available for editors

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Syntype UAZM C.3065a [details]

Syntype UAZM C.3065b [details]

Syntype UAZM C.3065c [details]

Syntype UAZM C.3066, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Syntype UAZM C.3067 [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
English	yellow sea rod [from synonym]	[details]
German	Gelbe Seerute [from synonym]Gelbe Federgorgonie [from synonym]	[details]
Japanese	マキノハヤギ [from synonym]	[details]

To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Euplexaura flava (Nutting, 1910))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Plexaura flava Nutting, 1910)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Plexaura flava Nutting, 1910)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pinnigorgia flava)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Plexaura flava Nutting, 1910)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (347966)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (3 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (5 records) (from synonym Euplexaura flava (Nutting, 1910))

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (347966)

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