🦋 Family

Melithaeidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Cnidaria › Anthozoa › Malacalcyonacea › Melithaeidae

Iciligorgia schrammi is the largest sea fan, found across the western Atlantic from Florida to Brazil in shallow to deep waters.

Melithaea ochracea is a gorgonian coral used in reef aquaria and the jewellery trade as sponge coral.

Melithaea rubra is an endemic South African sea fan species that grows on reefs and is preyed on by specific nudibranchs and anemones.

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Eunicellidae 6 species Alcyoniidae 5 species Gorgoniidae 4 species Capnellidae 1 species Carijoidae 1 species Clavulariidae 1 species Isididae 1 species Lemnaliadae 1 species

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