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/5233906