Red-whip coral, Ellisella ceratophyta (Purple gorgonia, Gorgonia ceratophyta). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1804.

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