Species Profile
Gorgonia
Sea fan
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCoelenterata
ClassAnthozoa
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Gorgonia lives in tropical seas.
Sessile and carnivorous.
Important reef-associated organism.
Size & Structure
01
Fan-shaped branching colony
02
Horny axial skeleton
03
Purple, yellow or brown
04
Polyps embedded in branches
Gorgonia — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Acoelomate
- Body plan
- Blind sac body plan
- Germ layer
- Diploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Radial
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Incomplete, extracellular and intracellular
- Nervous system
- Nerve net
- Excretory organ
- Absent
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Type-I (absent)
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Diffusion
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Gastrovascular
- Skeleton structure
- Exoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Tissue level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Provides habitat for reef fauna
Enhances reef complexity
Filters plankton from water
Economic Importance
Ornamental value
Reef conservation studies
Marine biodiversity importance