THE GORGONACEA OF THE SIBOGA EXPEDITION 



VII. THE GORGONID.E 



C. C. NUTTING, 



Professor of Zoology, State University of Iowa. 



With 3 plates. 



(Aided by a grant from the Elizabeth Thompson science fund.) 



Family Gorgonid.e Verrill. 



Gorgonacces (in part) Milne Edwards et Haime. Histoire naturelle des Coralliaircs, I, 



1857, p. 144. 

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

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



p. 384. 

 GorgonacecB (in part) Duchas.saing de Fontbressin. Revue des Zoophytes et des Spongiaires 



des Antilles, 1870. 

 Gorgonidce Studer. Versuch eines Systemes der Alcyonaria, 1887, p. 61. 

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

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

 Gorgonime Delage et Htjrouard. Traite de Zoologie Concrete, II, 2, 1901, p. 420. 

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

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



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

 Gorgonida; 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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