Gorgonia coral

In 1825 A.-J. Balard detected iodine in various marine mollusks, bare or testacean, such as the dons, the venus, oysters, etc. several corals and marine plants, the gorgonia, the zostera marina, etc., and especially in the mother liquor of the salt works supplied by the Mediterranean ... 

Van Alstyne, K. L. and Paul, V. J., Chemical and structural defenses in the sea fan Gorgonia ventalina effects against generalist and specialist predators, Coral Reefs, 11, 155, 1992. 

Soft corals, of the Alcyonaria subclass, secrete the same type of skeleton composed of calcium carbonate the cohesion and extension of this skeleton determine the consistency of the coral. These corals, called gorgonia (because they have a flexible axial skeleton), are very abundant in the Caribbean Sea. 

Isolation. 3,5-Diiodotyrosine was first isolated by Drechsel (202) in 1896 from the alkaline hydrolysate of the homy skeleton of the coral Gorgonia cavolinii. This amino acid has been isolated from gorgonia skeletons (392, 393, 622, 769), bath sponges (41, 861), iodinated proteins (619-621), thyroid (374) and thyreoglobulin (320, 375). 

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