EditorialGorgonia ventalina, Print, Gorgonia ventalina, the 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.
EditorialSea fan, Gorgonia species (Slender gorgonia, Gorgonia viminalis?). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804.
EditorialSea fan, Gorgonia species (Slender gorgonia, Gorgonia viminalis?). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804.
EditorialPatulous gorgonia, Gorgonia patula, species of sea fan soft coral from the Mediterranean. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellan...
EditorialThick gorgonia, Gorgonia crassa (Candelabra coral, Plexaura flexuosa?). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1804.
EditorialRed-whip coral, Ellisella ceratophyta (Purple gorgonia, Gorgonia ceratophyta). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1804.
EditorialRed coral, Corallium rubrum 1, sea fan, Gorgonia antipathes 2, common white stone coral 3 and staghorn coral, Acropora florida 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), We...
EditorialBlue gorgonia coral species (Thick-armed gorgonia, Gorgonia briareus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1804.
EditorialRed African gorgonian coral, Gorgonia pinnata. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1805.
EditorialVenus sea fan, Gorgonia flabellum, and organ pipe coral, Tubipora musica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher a...