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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 ...
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. [3] 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 ...
Leptogorgia palma Gorgonia flabellum. 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.
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Venus fan (Gorgonia flabellum), Caribbean Sea at Goat Bay (Bahía de la Chiva) on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico Gorgonian with reproductive stage, Caribbean Sea at Cabrits National Park, Dominica A close-up of an alcyonacean showing individual polyps. The structure of a gorgonian colony varies.
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Its colour, pink or pale lavender, matches the colour of its host sea fan, Gorgonia ventalina. [1] There are about twenty thin white stripes running the length of the body. [1] There are series of nine, sparsely pinnate, gills or cerata down each side of the body. [1] Tritonicula hamnerorum is up to 15 millimetres (0.59 in) long. [5] [6]
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