Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 45v
Notes:
There are many species of Gorgonia, commonly known as the sea fan or sea feather, a sessile colonial soft coral in the family Gorgoniidae, one of which, Gorgonia mariae, which occurs in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, is pictured here.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Wide-mesh sea fan
Current Scientific Name
Gorgonia mariae
