Species Echinogorgia flabellum (Pallas, 1766)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Antipathes flabellum Pallas, P.S. 1766. Elenchus Zoophytorum sistens Generum adumbrationes Generaliores et Specierum cognitarum succinctas Descriptiones, cum selectis Auctorum synomymis. Hagae Comitum. Elenchus Zoophytorum sistens Generum adu : unknown pp. xvi, 17-28, 1-451. [211].

Generic Combinations

• Echinogorgia flabellum (Pallas, 1766).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Antipathes flabellum Esper, 1788 [Esper had material that he identified as Antipathes flabellum Pallas, but Pallas' description is confusing and the true identity of his species will never be known. Esper's material as been shown to represent one of his later 1806 species, Gorgonia pseudoantipathes, which is now known to be Verrucella pseudoantipathes (Esper, 1806). Ridley identified Australian material as Echinogorgia flabellum and attributed the species to Esper and not Pallas. Ridley's decription indicates that he did indeed have a species of Echinogorgia. [Compiler]]. —
  Esper, E.J.C. 1788. Die Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet nest Beschreibungen. Theil 1. Nurnberg : Raspischen Buchhandlung xii + 320 pp.
• Echinogorgia flabellum (Esper, 1792). —
  Ridley, S. 1884. Alcyonaria. pp. 327-365 in Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the H.M.S. 'Alert ' 1881-2. London : British Museum Trustees, printed by Taylor & Francis. [337-339]

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

History of changes