''Eleutherobia'' is a
genus
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of
soft corals
Alcyonacea, or soft corals, are an order of corals. In addition to the fleshy soft corals, the order Alcyonacea now contains all species previously known as "gorgonian corals", that produce a more or less hard skeleton, though quite different f ...
in the
family
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.
Species
Species in the genus include:
* ''
Eleutherobia australiensis''
Bryce, Poliseno, Alderslade & Vargas, 2015
* ''
Eleutherobia dofleini''
(Kükenthal, 1906)
* ''
Eleutherobia duriuscula''
(Thomson & Dean, 1931)
* ''
Eleutherobia flava''
(Nutting, 1912)
* ''
Eleutherobia grandiflora''
(Kükenthal, 1906)
* ''
Eleutherobia imaharai''
Bryce, Poliseno, Alderslade & Vargas, 2015
* ''
Eleutherobia lutea''
Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995
* ''
Eleutherobia rigida''
(Pütter, 1900)
* ''
Eleutherobia rubra''
(Brundin, 1896)
* ''
Eleutherobia somaliensis''
Verseveldt & Bayer, 1988
* ''
Eleutherobia splendens''
(Thomson & Dean, 1931)
* ''
Eleutherobia studeri''
(J.S. Thomson, 1910)
* ''
Eleutherobia sumbawaensis''
Verseveldt & Bayer, 1988
* ''
Eleutherobia unicolor''
(Kükenthal, 1906)
* ''
Eleutherobia variabile''
(Thomson, 1921)
* ''
Eleutherobia vinadigitaria''
Williams & Little, 2001
; synonyms
* ''
Eleutherobia aurea''
Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995, accepted as ''
Parasphaerasclera aurea
''Parasphaerasclera'' is a genus of soft coral. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Parasphaerascleridae.
Species
The following species are recognized:
* '' Parasphaerasclera albiflora'' (Utinomi, 1957)
* '' Parasphaerasclera aurea'' ...
''
(Benayahu & Schleyer, 1995)
References
Alcyoniidae
Octocorallia genera
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