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The sea pens' ability to be clumped together and spatially unpredictable hinders sea stars' predation abilities. [9] When touched, some sea pens emit a bright greenish light; this is known as bioluminescence. They may also force water out of their bodies for defence, rapidly deflating and retreating into their peduncle.
Phylum: Cnidaria: Class: ... Family: Renillidae Gray, 1870: Genus: Renilla Lamarck, 1816: Renilla is a genus of sea pen. ... Sea pansy is a common name for species in ...
The name "Anthozoa" comes from the Greek words άνθος (ánthos; "flower") and ζώα (zóa; "animals"), hence ανθόζωα (anthozoa) = "flower animals", a reference to the floral appearance of their perennial polyp stage. [1] Anthozoans are exclusively marine, and include sea anemones, stony corals, soft corals, sea pens, sea fans and ...
Renilla reniformis, the sea pansy, is a species of soft coral in the family Renillidae. [1] It is native to warm continental shelf waters of the Western Hemisphere. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is frequently found washed ashore on North East Florida beaches following northeasterly winds or rough surf conditions.
Renilla muelleri (also spelled R. mulleri or R. müilleri) is a species of sea pansy.It has been reported from the Gulf Coast of the United States, notably the Florida panhandle, [2] but is also reported from the eastern coast of South America. [3]
Other names for the sand dollar include sand cakes, pansy shells, snapper biscuits, cake urchins, and sea cookies. [3] In South Africa, they are known as pansy shells from their suggestion of a five-petaled garden flower. The Caribbean sand dollar or inflated sea biscuit, Clypeaster rosaceus, is thicker in height than
Coelenterata is a term encompassing the animal phyla Cnidaria (corals, true jellies, sea anemones, sea pens, and their relatives) and Ctenophora (comb jellies). The name comes from Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos) 'hollow' and ἔντερον (énteron) 'intestine', referring to the hollow body cavity common to these two phyla.
The diamondback tritonia preys on soft corals including sea pens, sea pansies, and sea whips. [10] They feed on the young of these organisms as they are smaller and easier to consume. [ 11 ] More specifically, the diamondback tritonia is the only known predator to the polyps of Discophyton rudyi, which are small, colony-forming soft corals ...