Sea Whip

Eunicea knighti

• Group: Coral
• Typical depth: 3–27 m

A Caribbean sea whip that rises in flexible, branching colonies from coral reefs and rocky bottoms, mostly in the shallows between three and twenty seven metres. Each branch is a colony of tiny polyps that catch plankton from the passing current.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Cnidaria › Octocorallia › Malacalcyonacea › Plexauridae › Eunicea

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 283249.