THE GORGONACEA OF THE SIBOGA EXPEDITION 



VII. THE GORGONID.E 



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C. C. NUTTING, 



Professor of Zoology, State University of Iowa. 



W i t h 3 p 1 a t e s. 



(Aided by a grant from the elizabeth thompson science fund.) 



Family Gorgonid.e Verrill. 



Gorgonacées (in part) Milne Edwards et Haime. Histoire naturelle des Coralliaires, I, 



1S57, p. 144. 

 Gorgonia Kölliker. Icones Histiologicae, II, 1865, p. 135. 

 Gorgoiüthc Verrill. Transactions Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, I, 2, 1867 — 71, 



p. 3S4. 

 Gorgonaces (in part) Duchassaing de Fontbressin. Revue des Zoophytes et des Spongiaires 



des Antilles, 1870. 

 Gorgónidce Studer. Versuch eines Systemes der Alcyonaria, 1S87, p. 61. 

 Gorgonidce (in part) Ridley. Alcyonaria of the Mergui Archipelago, 1888, p. 233, 

 Gorgonidm Wright and Studer. Challenger Reports, the Alcyonaria, 1889, p. 146. 

 Gorgoninm Delage et Hérouard. Traite de Zoölogie Concrete, II, 2, 1901, p. 420. 

 Gorgonidce Hickson. Alcyonaria of the Cape of Good Hope, II, 1904, p. 227. 

 Gorgonidic Nutting. Alcyonaria of the Californian Coast, 1909, p. 722. 



Although Verrill (1867 — 71) appears to have been the fïrst one to use the name 

 Gorgonidae in its restricted sense as a family designation, he does not appear to have defined 

 it, although he discusses several of its genera at considerable length. 



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