| Gorgonia flabellum | |
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| Venus sea fan showing lateral branchlets | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Octocorallia |
| Order: | Alcyonacea |
| Family: | Gorgoniidae |
| Genus: | Gorgonia |
| Species: | G. flabellum
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| Binomial name | |
| Gorgonia flabellum | |
Gorgonia flabellum, also known as the Venus fan, Venus sea fan, West Indian sea fan, purple gorgonian seafan, and common sea fan, is a species of sea fan, a sessile colonial soft coral.[2]
- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Gorgonia flabellum Linnaeus, 1758". Marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2012-03-27.