Coeloplana yulianicorum

Coeloplana yulianicorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Ctenophora
Class: Tentaculata
Order: Platyctenida
Family: Coeloplanidae
Genus: Coeloplana
Species: Coeloplana yulianicorum
Alamaru, Brokovich & Loya, 2015

Coeloplana yulianicorum is a species of benthic comb jelly from the Red Sea, that lives as an episymbiont on the soft coral Sarcophyton glaucum. It can be differenciated from its cogenerate species by their host, colour, and colour pattern.[1]

References

  1. Alamaru, Ada; Brokovich, Eran; Loya, Yossi (2015). "Four new species and three new records of benthic ctenophores (Family: Coeloplanidae) from the Red Sea". Marine Biodiversity. 46 (1): 261–279. doi:10.1007/s12526-015-0362-4. ISSN 1867-1616.

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