Loading AI tools
Family of corals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Echinoptilidae is a family of sea pens, a member of the subclass Octocorallia in the phylum Cnidaria.
| Echinoptilidae | |
|---|---|
| |
| Actinoptilum molle | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Octocorallia |
| Order: | Pennatulacea |
| Family: | Echinoptilidae Hubrecht, 1885 |
| Genera | |
|
See text | |
Colonies are cylindrical without axis, and the rachis is generally longer than the peduncle. The colony may be radially or bilaterally symmetrical. Autozooids have non-retractile, bifurcated calyces with many sclerites.[1]
Indo-West Pacific to south western Africa in shallow sublittoral to over 800m depth.[1]
The World Register of Marine Species list the following genera:[2]
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
