Echinoptilidae

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Phylum:Cnidaria
Subphylum:Anthozoa
Class:Octocorallia
Order:Scleralcyonacea
Echinoptilidae
Actinoptilum molle
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Anthozoa
Class: Octocorallia
Order: Scleralcyonacea
Superfamily: Pennatuloidea
Family: Echinoptilidae
Hubrecht, 1885

Echinoptilidae is a family of sea pens, a member of the subclass Octocorallia in the phylum Cnidaria.

Colonies are cylindrical without axis, and the rachis is generally longer than the peduncle. The colony may be radially or bilaterally symmetrical. Autozooids have non-retractile, bifurcated calyces with many sclerites.[1]

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