Broad sea fan

Broad sea fan

Taxobox
name = Broad sea fan


status = VU | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Cnidaria
classis = Anthozoa
ordo = Gorgonacea
familia = Plexauridae
genus = "Eunicella"
species = "E. verrucosa"
binomial = "Eunicella verrucosa"
binomial_authority = (Pallas, 1766)
synonyms =
The broad sea fan or pink sea fan ("Eunicella verrucosa") is a species of invertebrate in the Plexauridae family.

Distribution

It is found in Algeria, France, Ireland, Italy, Mauritania, Morocco, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Western Sahara.

References

* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/8262/all Eunicella verrucosa] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 05 August 2007.

External links

* [http://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/images/photos/450300/chrisbunney/pink_sea_fan.jpgImage of a broad sea fan]


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