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Sea pen (Pteroeides esperi)

Copyright/attribution: Natural History Museum, London

Copyright/attribution: National Museum of Ireland - Natural History

Copyright/attribution: National Museum of Ireland - Natural History

Description

Notes: "This species is represented by five entire specimens of different ages, and a larger number of fragments. All were collected at Station 212, hat. 6┬░ 55' N., long. 122┬░ 15' E., off Mindanno, one of the Philippine Islands, on the 28th January 1875, at depths of 10, 14, and 20 fathoms." Zoology 2 II: Report on the Pennatulida. By Professor Albert v. K├Âlliker, F.M.R.S;, Hon. F.R.S.E. Bound in Volume 1,1880.