sea fan in English

noun
1
a horny coral with a vertical treelike or fanlike skeleton, living chiefly in warmer seas.
Soft corals such as the sea fan are both its feeding ground and its food.

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1. A red-and-yellow necklace sea star clings to a sea fan in the Maldives.

2. Here, we report a localized bloom of the benthic filamentous cyanobacterium Moorea Bouillonii (formerly Lyngbya Bouillonii) observed exclusively on the gorgonian (sea fan) coral Annella reticulata at around 20 m depth in Japan.