Gorgonia Collection

Sea fan, Gorgonia species (Slender gorgonia, Gorgonia viminalis?). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Varieties of corals, seafans, polyps and sea anemones
Varieties of soft corals, seafans, bryozoans, polyps and sea anemones. Lithograph from Lorenz Okens Universal Natural History, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande, Stuttgart, 1841

Blue gorgonia coral species (Thick-armed gorgonia, Gorgonia briareus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Thick gorgonia, Gorgonia crassa?
Thick gorgonia, Gorgonia crassa (Candelabra coral, Plexaura flexuosa?). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Red-whip coral, Ellisella ceratophyta (Purple gorgonia, Gorgonia ceratophyta). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Venus fan coral and reticulated red coral
Venus fan coral, Gorgonia flabellum (Keratophyton flabelliforme) 1, and reticulated red coral, Corallium reticulatum 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Christian Nicolaus

Gorgonia soft coral seafans: Eunicella verrucosa 1, Swiftia species 2, Euplexaura parviclados 3, Primnoella chilensis 4, Convexella murrayi 5, Parastenella spinosa 6, Junceella juncea 7

Coral varieties
Red coral, Corallium rubrum 1, sea fan, Gorgonia antipathes 2, common white stone coral 3 and staghorn coral, Acropora florida 4

Fan gorgonia, Venus fan, gorgonian, sea whip or sea fan, a type of polyp or soft coral.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Gougonia flabellum, pink sea fan
Coral skeleton of a pink sea fan from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

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