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Gorgonia

Poole, Karen E.

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Gorgonia is a genus of soft corals, sea fans in the family Gorgoniidae.

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Vinony's link graph records 23 inbound references to Gorgonia, and connects out to Octocorallia, Animalia and Carl Linnaeus.

It sits within the topics Animal taxa named by Carl Linnaeus, Gorgoniidae and Octocorallia genera.

Vinony links it to 14 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

sea fans

KINGDOM

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumCnidaria
  3. ClassOctocorallia
  4. OrderMalacalcyonacea
  5. FamilyGorgoniidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded3,012,139,120

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
258
With media
43
Family
Gorgoniidae
Collections
UCMP, USNM
Recorded in
United States, Malaysia, Dominica, Netherlands Antilles, Bahamas, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Gorgoniidae
Image
Gorgonia flabellum.jpg
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Commons category
Gorgonia
taxon name
Gorgonia
taxon rank
genus
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Encyclopedic overview

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Gorgonia is a genus of soft corals, sea fans in the family Gorgoniidae.

==Species== The World Register of Marine Species lists these species:

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gorgonia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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