''Muricella'' is a genus of
corals
Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the subphylum Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact Colony (biology), colonies of many identical individual polyp (zoology), polyps. Coral species include the important Coral ...
belonging to the family
Acanthogorgiidae
Acanthogorgiidae is a family of cnidarians belonging to the order Alcyonacea
Alcyonacea is the old scientific order name for the informal group known as "soft corals". It is now an unaccepted name for class Octocorallia. It became deprecated ...
.
The species of this genus are found in Pacific and Indian Ocean,
Caribbean
The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America ...
.
Species
Species:
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Muricella abnormalis''
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Muricella argentea''
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Muricella aruensis''
References
Octocorallia genera
Acanthogorgiidae
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