Iciligorgia | |
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Iciligorgia schrammi | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Anthozoa |
Order: | Alcyonacea |
Family: | Anthothelidae |
Genus: | Iciligorgia Duchassaing, 1870 |
Synonyms | |
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Iciligorgia is a genus of soft coral in the family Anthothelidae.
The following species are recognized: [1]
The Caryophylliidae are a family of stony corals found from the tropics to temperate seas, and from shallow to very deep water.
Cliona is a genus of demosponges in the family Clionaidae. It contains about eighty described species.
Scleraxonia is a suborder of corals, a member of the phylum Cnidaria.
Anthothelidae is a family of corals, a member of the phylum Cnidaria.
Iciligorgia schrammi, common names deepwater sea fan and black sea fan is a species of gorgonian sea fan in the family Anthothelidae. It is found in tropical parts of the Atlantic Ocean. This species was first described in 1870 by the French naturalist Édouard Placide Duchassaing de Fontbressin.
Melithaea is a genus of octocorals in the family Melithaeidae. Members of the genus are commonly known as fan corals and are found in the tropical Indo-Pacific region. The type species is Melithaea ochracea.
Leptogorgia is a genus of soft coral in the family Gorgoniidae. The genus has a widespread distribution with members being found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean from Western Europe to South Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic coasts of North and South America, the Antilles and the Pacific coast of America. Species are found in both shallow and deep waters.
Agelas is a genus of sea sponge in the class Demospongiae.
Alcyonium is a genus of soft corals in the family Alcyoniidae.
Plexauridae is a family of marine colonial octocorals in the phylum Cnidaria. Members of this family are found in shallow tropical and subtropical seas. Many species contain symbiotic photosynthetic protists called zooxanthellae.
Édouard Placide Duchassaing de Fontbressin was a French naturalist. He is noted for his work in botany and spongiology.
Callyspongia is a genus of demosponges in the family Callyspongiidae.
Niphatidae is a family of demosponges in the order Haplosclerida. It contains the following genera:
Ellisella, commonly known as sea whip, is a genus of soft coral in the family Ellisellidae.
Swiftia is a genus of gorgonian-type octocorals in the family Plexauridae.
Chrysogorgia is a genus of soft corals in the family Chrysogorgiidae.
Erythropodium is a genus of soft coral in the family Anthothelidae.
Villagorgia is a genus of gorgonian-type octocorals in the family Plexauridae.
Condylactis is a genus of cnidarians belonging to the family Actiniidae.