Animalia > Cnidaria > Anthozoa > Pennatulacea > Pennatulidae > Ptilosarcus > Ptilosarcus gurneyi

Ptilosarcus gurneyi (Gurney's sea pen)

Synonyms: Leioptilus gurneyi; Pennatula tenua; Sarcoptilus gurneyi

Wikipedia Abstract

Ptilosarcus gurneyi, the orange sea pen or fleshy sea pen, is a species of sea pen in the family Pennatulidae. It is native to the northeastern Pacific Ocean where it lives in deep water anchored by its base in sand or mud. It has received its common name because of its resemblance to a quill in a bottle of ink.
View Wikipedia Record: Ptilosarcus gurneyi

Attributes

Maximum Longevity [2]  15 years
Water Biome [1]  Benthic, Coastal

Predators

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
2Interactions between a sea pen and seven of its predators, Charles Birkeland, Ecological Monographs (1974) 44:211-232
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0