Coeloplana loyai

Coeloplana loyai is a species of benthic comb jelly from the Red Sea, that lives as an episymbiont on the mushroom corals Herpolitha limax and Ctenactis echinata. It can be differentiated from its cogenerate species by their host, colour, and colour pattern.[1]

Coeloplana loyai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Ctenophora
Class: Tentaculata
Order: Platyctenida
Family: Coeloplanidae
Genus: Coeloplana
Species:
C. loyai
Binomial name
Coeloplana loyai
Alamaru, Brokovich & Loya, 2015

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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