Coeloplana huchonae
Appearance
Coeloplana huchonae | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Ctenophora |
Class: | Tentaculata |
Order: | Platyctenida |
Family: | Coeloplanidae |
Genus: | Coeloplana |
Species: | C. huchonae
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Binomial name | |
Coeloplana huchonae Alamaru, Brokovich & Loya, 2015[1]
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Coeloplana huchonae is a species of benthic comb jelly.[1][2] It is known from the Red Sea and lives as an episymbiont on the stems of the soft coral Dendronephthya hemprichi. It can be differentiated from its congeneric species by their host, colour, and colour pattern.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Alamaru, Ada; Brokovich, Eran & Loya, Yossi (2015). "Four new species and three new records of benthic ctenophores (Family: Coeloplanidae) from the Red Sea". Marine Biodiversity. 46 (1): 261–279. doi:10.1007/s12526-015-0362-4. S2CID 14572230.
- ^ "Coeloplana huchonae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2021. Retrieved 10 September 2021.