THE GORGONACEA OF THE SIBOGA EXPEDITION 



VII. THE GORGONID^E 



BY 



.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. 



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



1857, p. 144. 



Gorgonia Kolliker. Icones Histiologies, II, 1865, p. 135. 

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



p. 384. 

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



des Antilles, 1870. 



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

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

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

 Gorgonince Delage et Herouard. Traite de Zoologie Concrete, II, 2, 1901, p. 420. 

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

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



Although VERRILL (1867 71) appears to have been the first 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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