Skip to content
No photo yet

Corals, anemones & jellyfish

Mueller's Sea Pansy

Renilla muelleri Kölliker, 1872

Names

EnglishMueller's Sea Pansy
Dutch—
Spanish—
Chinese—
Scientific nameRenilla muelleri Kölliker, 1872

About this species

Renilla muelleri (also spelled R. mulleri or R. müilleri) is a species of sea pansy. It has been reported from the Gulf Coast of the United States, notably the Florida panhandle, but is also reported from the eastern coast of South America. It is thought to be a euryhaline littoral species, found to a depth of up to 150 meters.

The genome of R. muelleri was sequenced in 2019.

Read more on Wikipedia · Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCnidaria
ClassAnthozoa
OrderScleralcyonacea
FamilyRenillidae
GenusRenilla

Related species in Suriname