Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
August 23, 1822
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 121
Notes:
Alcyonium is a genus of soft corals in the family Alcyoniidae.
For Alcyonium ocellatum, or Alcyonium with little eyes, see John Ellis and Daniel Charles Solander, The Natural History of Many Curious and Uncommon Zoophytes: Collected from Various Parts of the Globe (London, 1786), p. 180, and plate 1, fig. 6, pictured here / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41944050
William Wood was the manager of the Peales' Baltimore Museum. .
Current Scientific Name
Alcyonium ocellatum
