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Slender sea pens
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Slender sea pens

Virgulariidae

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

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Virgularia

genusVirgularia

Stylatula

genusStylatula

Scytalium

genusScytalium

Acanthoptilum

genusAcanthoptilum

Scytaliopsis

genusScytaliopsis

Grasshoffia

genusGrasshoffia

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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 52537.