Coeloplana huchonae

Coeloplana huchonae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Ctenophora
Class:	Tentaculata
Order:	Platyctenida
Family:	Coeloplanidae
Genus:	Coeloplana
Species:	C. huchonae
Binomial name
	Coeloplana huchonae; Alamaru, Brokovich & Loya, 2015

Last updated September 08, 2025

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

1 2 3 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.

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[Alamaru_et_al._2015-1] 1 2 3 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.

[WoRMS-2] "Coeloplana huchonae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2021. Retrieved 10 September 2021.

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