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Lesson #8 - Deep-sea Cnidarians POWERPOINT

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Bubblegum Coral Paragorgia arborea

• Family Paragorgiidae

• Depths - 200 meters (660 ft.) to 1,300 meters (4,300 ft.)

• Temperatures - 2 °C (36 °F) and 8 °C (46 °F)

• Geographic range - widespread in northern Atlantic Ocean

including seamounts & knolls

• 1758 - first described by famed Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus

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