Echinoptilidae
Sign in to saveEchinoptilidae is a family of sea pens, a member of the subclass Octocorallia in the phylum Cnidaria.
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Echinoptilidae is a family of sea pens, a member of the subclass Octocorallia in the phylum Cnidaria.
==Characteristics== Colonies are cylindrical without axis, and the rachis is generally longer than the peduncle. The colony may be radially or bilaterally symmetrical. Autozooids have non-retractile, bifurcated calyces with many sclerites.
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