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Pennatulidae
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Pennatulidae

Pennatulidae is a family of sea pens, a member of the subclass Octocorallia in the phylum Cnidaria.

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7 branches of this family, most-observed first

Ptilosarcus

genusPtilosarcus

Pteroeides

genusPteroeides

Sarcoptilus

genusSarcoptilus

Sea-pens

genusPennatula

Ptilella

genusPtilella

Crassophyllum

genusCrassophyllum

Gyrophyllum

genusGyrophyllum

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 195572.