sea-penn.
A polyp of the genus Pennatula or family Pennatulidæ.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Alcyonaria > suborder Pennatulacea > member of family Pennatulidae
sea-feather1624
sea-pen1764
pen-fish1787
pennatulid1869
1764 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 420 This Animal was well known to the ancients by the name of the Sea-Pen.
1768 Solander Let. to J. Ellis in Ann. Reg. 1769 (1770) 188/2 We can hardly buy a plate of shrimps [at Rio de Janeiro], without finding a dozen of your Pennatula reniformis, or kidney shaped sea pen, among them.
1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 102 The sandy beach of the bay is strewn with..sponges, sea-pens [etc.].
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 591 fig. The sea pen (Pteroides spinosus).
1883 C. F. Holder in Harper's Mag. Jan. 184/2 The sea~pens are remarkable for their phosphorescence.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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