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Swiftia pallida

Madsen, 1970


Erling Svensen Took a picture of a juvenil Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae in Egersund, Norway today. 35 meters deep, sitting in a Swiftia pallida coral.

Message posted on Echinoderms of the NE Atlantic on 05 Oct 2013
Taxonomy
Animalia (Kingdom)
  Cnidaria (Phylum)
    Anthozoa (Class)
      Octocorallia (Subclass)
        Alcyonacea (Order)
          Holaxonia (Suborder)
            Plexauridae (Family)
              Swiftia (Genus)
                Swiftia pallida (Species)
Associated Species