coral in the family Gorgoniidae. It was formerly included in the genus Lophogorgia but that genus has been dismantled. The regal sea fan is a colonial coral...

around the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of America. Some genera, including Lophogorgia, Leptogorgia and Eunicella, have a more widespread distribution including...

specialist predator on gorgonians of the genera Eunicella, Paramuricea and Lophogorgia. It feeds on the polyps and the coenenchyme, the living connective tissue...