Gorgonia flabellum Venus sea fan, Venus' fan, common sea fan

Gorgonia flabellum is commonly referred to as Venus sea fan, Venus' fan, common sea fan. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Roger Steeb, USA

Common Sea Fan (Gorgonia flabellum), Bocas Del Toro Archipelago, Panama 2015

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lexID:: 5270
AphiaID:: 290029

Scientific:: Gorgonia flabellum
German:: Venusfächer, Großer Seefächer, Große Netzgorgonie, Große Fächerkoralle
English:: Venus Sea Fan, Venus' Fan, Common Sea Fan

Category:: Gorgonier

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Gorgoniidae (Family) > Gorgonia (Genus) > flabellum (Species)
Initial determination:: Linnaeus, 1758

Occurrence:: Belize, Bermuda, Canada Eastern Pacific, Costa Rica, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Honduras, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, USA
Marine Zone:: Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic.
Sea depth:: 1 - 30 Meter
Size:: up to 39.37" (100 cm)
Temperature:: 68 °F - 82.4 °F (20°C - 28°C)
Food:: Plankton, Zooplankton, Zooxanthellae / Light
Difficulty:: Not suitable for aquarium keeping
Offspring:: Possible to breed
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Gorgonia capensis
Gorgonia clathrus
Gorgonia coarctata
Gorgonia cribrum
Gorgonia crinita
Gorgonia elegans
Gorgonia flabellum
Venusfächer, Großer Seefächer, Große Netzgorgonie, Große Fächerkoralle
Gorgonia flavescens
Gorgonia mariae
Seefächer
Gorgonia occatoria
Gorgonia palma
Gorgonia reticulum
Gorgonia sarmentosa
Gorgonia stricta
Gorgonia suberosa
Gorgonia subtilis
Gorgonia venosa
Gorgonia ventalina
Karibischer Fächer oder Venusfächer
Gorgonia venusta

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2013-04-16 08:21:41
Last edit:: 2019-07-24 21:20:05

Captive breeding / propagation

The offspring of Gorgonia flabellum are possible. Unfortunately, the number of offspring is not large enough to cover the demand of the trade. If you are interested in Gorgonia flabellum, please ask your dealer for offspring. If you already own Gorgonia flabellum, try breeding yourself. This will help to improve the availability of offspring in the trade and to conserve natural stocks.

Info

Gorgonia flabellum Linnaeus, 1758

Gorgonia flabellum 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.

Similar in appearance to Gorgonia ventalina.

Synonymised names:
Gorgonia flabellum f. occatoria Milne Edwards (synonymy)
Rhipidogorgia occatoria Valenciennes, 1855 (nomen nudum)
Rhipidogorgia occatoria Milne Edwards, 1857 (synonymy)

External links

Harald´s Gorgonien-Lexikon (de) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Interactive Identification Guide to South Florida Octocorals (en). Abgerufen am 30.12.2020.
Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Commonly

Venus Sea Fans, Gorgonia flabellum, 2018

Venus Sea Fans, Gorgonia flabellum and Divers, 2016

© Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens, Holland

Common Sea Fan (Gorgonia flabellum), Bocas Del Toro Archipelago, Panama 2015

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