Gorgonia

	Gorgonia ''Gorgonia'' is a genus of soft corals, sea fans in the family Gorgoniidae. Species The World Register of Marine Species lists these species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...: References Gorgoniidae Octocorallia genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{octocorallia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gorgonia Flavescens ''Gorgonia'' is a genus of Alcyonacea, soft corals, Gorgonian, sea fans in the family Gorgoniidae. Species The World Register of Marine Species lists these species: References Gorgoniidae Octocorallia genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{octocorallia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gorgonia Petezichans ''Gorgonia'' is a genus of soft corals, sea fans in the family Gorgoniidae. Species The World Register of Marine Species lists these species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...: References Gorgoniidae Octocorallia genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{octocorallia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Alcyonacea Alcyonacea is the old scientific order name for the informal group known as "soft corals". It is now an unaccepted name for class Octocorallia. It became deprecated . The following text should be considered a historical, outdated way of treating the taxonomy of Anthozoa and Octocorallia. Some, or many parts of it, are no longer valid. Any remaining information found to be still valid, should be carefully merged into Octocorallia. Alcyonacea are an order of sessile colonial cnidarians that are found throughout the oceans of the world, especially in the deep sea, polar waters, tropics and subtropics. Whilst not in a strict taxonomic sense, Alcyonacea are commonly known as soft corals. The term "soft coral" generally applies to organisms in the two orders Pennatulacea and Alcyonacea with their polyps embedded within a fleshy mass of coenenchymal tissue. Consequently, the term "gorgonian coral" is commonly handed to multiple species in the order Alcyonacea that produce a min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gorgonia Ventalina ''Gorgonia ventalina'', the common sea fan and purple sea fan, is a species of sea fan, an octocoral in the family Gorgoniidae. It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Description ''G. ventalina'' is a fan-shaped colonial coral with several main branches and a latticework of linking smaller branches. The skeleton is composed of calcite and gorgonin, a collagen-like compound. The calyces in which the polyps are embedded are in two rows along the branches. Many of the smaller branches are compressed in the plane of the fan, which distinguishes this species from the Venus sea fan ('' Gorgonia flabellum''). It often has small accessory fans growing out sideways from the main fan. It grows to 1.5 m (5 ft) tall and is variable in colour, being whitish, yellow, or pale purple. The main branches are often purple and the fan is orientated at right angles to the current. Distribution and habitat The purple sea fan is found in the western Atlantic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gorgonia Flabellum ''Gorgonia flabellum'', also known as the Venus fan, Venus sea fan, West Indian sea fan, purple gorgonian seafan, and common sea fan, is a species of sea fan, a sessile colonial soft coral. Description The Venus sea fan is a delicate-looking colonial soft coral in the form of a fan composed of a lattice of branches in a single plane. The coral grows from a small base, forming several main branches with side branches and a network of small branchlets. The Venus sea fan is similar in appearance to ''Gorgonia ventalina'', but has a slightly more untidy shape and short, stubby side growths coming out of the main plane. In ''G. flabellum'', the branches are flattened at right angles to the plane of the fan, while in ''G. ventalina'', the branches are either round or flattened parallel to the plane of the fan. The wide-mesh sea fan ('' Gorgonia mariae'') is also similar in appearance, but at only , is smaller, and many of the branchlets do not interconnect. The Venus sea fan is whit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gorgonia Mariae ''Gorgonia mariae'', commonly known as the wide-mesh sea fan, is a species of sea fan, a sessile colonial soft coral in the family Gorgoniidae. It occurs in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea at depths down to about . Description ''G. mariae'' is the smallest sea fan in the Caribbean, growing to a height of about . The much-branched structure is mostly two dimensional, and as it enlarges, the branches become cross-connected to form a net. The branches are only slightly compressed and the side branches are pinnately divided. The colour varies; most specimens are whitish and others are yellow, and often some violet colour is seen near the base. Two other growth forms exist in the Caribbean; one has many short, free branches on one or both faces of the net; the other, which is usually bright yellow, has the lower part of the colony anastomising and net-like, while the upper and outer parts have free branches. The supporting axial rod in the main stem and branc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Gorgoniidae Gorgoniidae is a family of soft corals, a member of the subclass Octocorallia in the phylum Cnidaria. Nearly all the genera and species are native to the east and west coasts of America. Characteristics Originally the members of the family Gorgoniidae included a much wider range of genera than it does now and was used for all of the horny Octocorallia. Now it is restricted to those species where the "calcareous spicules are less than 0.3 mm. in length, sculptured with regularly disposed girdles of complicated tubercles ('warts'), the anthocodiae are relatively unarmed, at most with but a few characteristically shaped flat rods en chevron beneath each tentacle, the horny axial cylinder is weakly loculated if at all, and is perforated by a relatively narrow, chambered central chord, and in which the branchlets are usually quite slender, with a thin cortex." The polyps are retractable and the stems have an axis of the protein gorgonin surrounding a narrow, hollow, cross-cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]