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Tall Sea Pen

Funiculina quadrangularis

Classification

Sea pens are marine cnidarians belonging to the superfamily Pennatuloidea. They are fleshy colonial organisms anchored to the seabed, with tiny polyps embedded in a soft matrix. They have a cosmopolitan distribution, being found in tropical and temperate waters worldwide, from intertidal shallow waters to deep seas of more than 6,100 m (20,000 ft).

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Spain · 100United Kingdom · 42