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Venus fan
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Venus fan

Gorgonia flabellum

Gorgonia flabellum, also known as the Venus fan, Venus sea fan, common sea fan, West Indian sea fan and purple gorgonian seafan, is a species of sea fan, a sessile colonial soft coral.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 193887.