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
- 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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