''Ellisella'', commonly known as
sea whip
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, is a
genus
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of
soft coral
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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Ellisellidae.
''Ellisella'' constitutes like bushy shrub
gorgonians which dominant color is brown to reddish and
polyps
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are white with eight
tentacles
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.
Branches are more or less long according to the
species
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, however, very few ramifications are observed in the
genus
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.
Species list
The following species are recognized within the genus ''Ellisella'':
* ''
Ellisella acacesia''
(Grasshoff, 1999)
* ''
Ellisella andamanensis''
(Simpson, 1910)
* ''
Ellisella atlantica''
(Toeplitz, 1910)
* ''
Ellisella aurantiaca''
(Thomson & Henderson)
* ''
Ellisella azilia''
(Grasshoff, 1999)
* ''
Ellisella candida''
(Ridley, 1882)
* ''
Ellisella ceratophyta''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''
Ellisella cercidia''
(Grasshoff, 1999)
* ''
Ellisella ceylonensis''
(Simpson, 1910)
* ''
Ellisella cylindrica''
(Toeplitz, 1919)
* ''
Ellisella divisa''
(Thomson & Henderson, 1905)
* ''
Ellisella dolfusi''
(Stiasny, 1938)
* ''
Ellisella elongata''
(Pallas, 1766)
* ''
Ellisella erythraea''
(Kükenthal, 1913)
* ''
Ellisella eustala''
(Grasshoff, 1999)
* ''
Ellisella filiformis''
(Toeplitz, 1889)
* ''
Ellisella flagellum''
(Thomson & Russell, 1910)
* ''
Ellisella flava''
(Nutting, 1910)
* ''
Ellisella funiculina''
(Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
* ''
Ellisella gracilis''
(Wright & Studer, 1889)
* ''
Ellisella grandiflora''
(Deichmann, 1936)
* ''
Ellisella grandis
''Ellisella'', commonly known as sea whip, is a Genus (biology), genus of soft coral in the Family (biology), family Ellisellidae.
''Ellisella'' constitutes like bushy shrub gorgonians which dominant color is brown to reddish and polyps are whi ...
''
(Verrill, 1901)
* ''
Ellisella gruveli''
(Stiasny, 1936)
* ''
Ellisella laevis''
(Verrill, 1865)
* ''
Ellisella limbaughi''
(Bayer, 1960)
* ''
Ellisella maculata''
(Studer, 1878)
* ''
Ellisella marisrubri''
(Stiasny, 1938)
* ''
Ellisella moniliformis''
(Lamarck, 1816)
* ''
Ellisella nivea''
(Bayer & Grasshoff, 1995)
* ''
Ellisella nuctenea''
(Grasshoff, 1999)
* ''
Ellisella paraplexauroides''
Stiasny, 1936
* ''
Ellisella plexauroides''
(Toeplitz, 1919)
* ''
Ellisella quadrilineata''
(Simpson, 1910)
* ''
Ellisella rigida''
(Toeplitz, 1910)
* ''
Ellisella rosea''
(Bayer & Grasshoff, 1995)
* ''
Ellisella rossafila''
(Grasshoff, 1999)
* ''
Ellisella rubra''
(Wright & Studer, 1889)
* ''
Ellisella schmitti''
(Bayer, 1961)
* ''
Ellisella thomsoni''
(Simpson, 1910)
* ''
Ellisella vaughani''
Stiasny, 1940
* ''
Ellisella vermeuleni''
(Stiasny, 1936)
References
External links
Ellisellidae
Octocorallia genera
Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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