Ellisella
Ellisella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Octocorallia |
Order: | Alcyonacea |
Family: | Ellisellidae |
Genus: | Ellisella J.E.Gray, 1858 |
Ellisella, commonly known as sea whip, is a genus of soft coral in the family Ellisellidae.
Ellisella constitutes like bushy shrub gorgonians which dominant color is brown to reddish and polyps are white with eight tentacles.
Branches are more or less long according to the species, however, very few ramifications are observed in the genus.
Species list[]
The following species are recognized within the genus Ellisella:[1]
- (Grasshoff, 1999)
- (Simpson, 1910)
- (Toeplitz, 1910)
- (Thomson & Henderson)
- (Grasshoff, 1999)
- (Ridley, 1882)
- (Linnaeus, 1758)
- (Grasshoff, 1999)
- (Simpson, 1910)
- (Toeplitz, 1919)
- (Thomson & Henderson, 1905)
- (Stiasny, 1938)
- (Pallas, 1766)
- (Kükenthal, 1913)
- (Grasshoff, 1999)
- (Toeplitz, 1889)
- (Thomson & Russell, 1910)
- (Nutting, 1910)
- (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
- (Wright & Studer, 1889)
- (Deichmann, 1936)
- (Verrill, 1901)
- (Stiasny, 1936)
- (Verrill, 1865)
- (Bayer, 1960)
- (Studer, 1878)
- (Stiasny, 1938)
- (Lamarck, 1816)
- (Bayer & Grasshoff, 1995)
- (Grasshoff, 1999)
- Ellisella paraplexauroides Stiasny, 1936
- (Toeplitz, 1919)
- (Simpson, 1910)
- (Toeplitz, 1910)
- (Bayer & Grasshoff, 1995)
- (Grasshoff, 1999)
- (Wright & Studer, 1889)
- (Bayer, 1961)
- (Simpson, 1910)
- Stiasny, 1940
- (Stiasny, 1936)
References[]
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Ellisella Gray, 1858". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
External links[]
Categories:
- Ellisellidae
- Octocorallia genera
- Taxa named by John Edward Gray
- Octocorallia stubs