Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 25, 1817
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 88
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.
Current Common Name:
Wide-mesh sea fan
Current Scientific Name
Gorgonia mariae
