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| Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Alcyonaria/Octocorallia > Order Gorgonacea |
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whip Junceella sp.* Family Ellisellidae updated Dec 2019 Where seen? This long unbranched colony is sometimes seen on our Northern shores, on coral rubble. Features: 20-30cm long. Stem cylindrical and unbranched and has bumps all around. Small transparent to white polyps emerge from these bumps when the colony is submerged. Usually white, but sometimes yellow ones are seen. According to Fabricius, in some species, the tip of the colony can detach to fall to the sea floor and grow up as a new sea whip. A long unbranched colony of Asparagus sea fan may resemble a sea whip. Another species that has a long unbranched whip-like form is Viminella sp. |
 Beting Bronok, Jul 03  |
 Beting Bronok, Jun 04  |
 Tuas, Apr 05  |
*Species are difficult to positively identify without close examination.
On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.
| Sea whips on Singapore shores |
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 East Coast Park (B), Jun 21 Photo shared by Loh Kok Sheng on facebook. |
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