Pennatula

Pennatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Octocorallia
Order:	Pennatulacea
Family:	Pennatulidae
Genus:	Pennatula
Species
	Danielssen, 1860; Barreira e Castro & Semaro de Medeiros, 2001; Tixier-Durivault, 1966; Herklots, 1858; Ehrenberg, 1834; Thomson & Henderson, 1906; Kükenthal, 1910; Alder, 1867; Kölliker, 1880; Kölliker, 1880; Kölliker, 1880; Kölliker, 1880; Linnaeus, 1758; Jungersen, 1904; (Ellis, 1761);
Synonyms
	Gray, 1870;

Pennatula is a genus of sea pens in the family Pennatulidae. The genus contains several bioluminescent species, including , , and .^[2]^[3]

References[]

^ ^a ^b Cordeiro, R.; van Ofwegen, L.; Williams, G. (2019). World List of Octocorallia. Pennatula Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=128495 Archived 2015-04-08 at the Wayback Machine on 2019-05-01
^ Herring, Peter J. (1987). "Systematic distribution of bioluminescence in living organisms". Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence. 1 (3): 147–163. doi:10.1002/bio.1170010303. PMID 3503524.
^ Williams, Gary (2001). "First record of a bioluminescent soft coral: description of a disjunct population of Eleutherobia grayi (Thomson and Dean, 1921) from the Solomon Islands, with a review of bioluminescence in the Octocorallia". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 52: 209–225.

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