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    Leptogorgia is a genus of soft coral in the family Gorgoniidae. The genus has a widespread distribution with members being found in the eastern Atlantic...
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    Leptogorgia virgulata, commonly known as the sea whip or colorful sea whip, is a species of soft coral in the family Gorgoniidae. Leptogorgia virgulata...
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  • Leptogorgia festiva is a species of gorgonian sea fan in the family Gorgoniidae. It has been recorded in the Caribbean Sea. "WoRMS - World Register of...
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  • Leptogorgia capensis is a species of sea fan in the family Gorgoniidae. It was described by Sydney John Hickson in 1900. It occurs on the coast of South...
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    Leptogorgia sarmentosa is a species of colonial soft coral, a sea fan in the family Gorgoniidae. It is native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the western...
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    Leptogorgia exigua is a coral species first described by Addison Emery Verrill in 1870. Verrill initially considered this species a diminutive variant...
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    Leptogorgia hebes, commonly known as the regal sea fan or false sea fan, is a species of soft coral in the family Gorgoniidae. It was formerly included...
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    The palmate sea fan (Leptogorgia palma) is a species of gorgonian sea fan in the family Gorgoniidae. This fan grows up to 2 meters in total height and...
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    Barnard 1932 Hyperia medusarum Müller 1776 Hyperoche medusarum Krøyer 1838 Leptogorgia medusa Bayer 1952 Lilyopsis medusa Metschnikoff & Metschnikoff 1871 Limnomedusae...
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    Atlantic and Pacific coasts of America. Some genera, including Lophogorgia, Leptogorgia and Eunicella, have a more widespread distribution including the temperate...
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    their food from predation but some, including the corals Hetroxenia and Leptogorgia, depend almost completely on their endosymbionts and on absorbing dissolved...
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    species. The mollusc Simnialena marferula is only found on the sea whip Leptogorgia virgulata, is coloured like it and has sequestered its defensive chemicals...
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    Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico where it grows on the sea whip Leptogorgia virgulata, which is found growing on reefs and rocks at depths down to...
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    populated by various kinds of gorgonia (sea fans), such as the colorful Leptogorgia sarmentosa and the white Eunicella verrucosa, a rare species in the Mediterranean...
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  • Lepanthes exigua, a flowering plant Leptanilla exigua, a North African ant Leptogorgia exigua, a Pacific coral Lissotesta exigua, a sea snail Lomanella exigua...
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    the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries. It lives on the sea whip, Leptogorgia virgulata. The shell of is shiny and smooth, and the shape of an elongated...
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    (Eunicella verrucosa), but that sea fan has rougher branches, or with Leptogorgia sarmentosa, but that species has straighter, more slender branches with...
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    depth. Tritonicula bayeri feeds on the octocorals Briareum asbestinum, Leptogorgia virgulata and Pseudopterogorgia sp. This article incorporates Creative...
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  • corals on which it lives and feeds. It is adapted for life on the coral, Leptogorgia virgulata, and is found nowhere else. It closely resembles the related...
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    Simnia spelta a live Simnia spelta on soft coral Leptogorgia sarmentosa Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda...
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  • defeating Dave Cortese A new, unnamed species (pictured) in the coral genus Leptogorgia is discovered off the coast of Sonoma County, near the Gulf of the Farallones...
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    Simnia a live Simnia spelta on soft coral Leptogorgia sarmentosa Shell of † Simnia fusulina (holotype at MNHN, Paris) Scientific classification Domain:...
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    Guaiagorgia Grasshoff & Alderslade, 1997 Genus Hicksonella Nutting, 1910 Genus Leptogorgia Milne-Edwards, 1857 Genus Olindagorgia Bayer, 1981 Genus Pacifigorgia...
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    colonies usually grow on sea fans such as Eunicella, Paramuricea and Leptogorgia, as well as on the tunicate Microcosmus and on coralline algae. Some...
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    Sinuous sea fan Leptogorgia barnardi Stiasny, 1940 Leptogorgia capensis (Hickson, 1900) Leptogorgia gilchristi (Hickson, 1904) Leptogorgia abietina Kükenthal...
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    sea grasses and seaweeds, and is often associated with the sea whip Leptogorgia virgulata in beds of turtlegrass. The sexes are separate in this species...
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    Family Gorgoniidae Gilchrist's sea fan, Leptogorgia gilchristi (Hickson, 1904), (TMNP MPA). Palmate sea fan, Leptogorgia palma (Pallas, 1766) (Cape Peninsula...
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