Lepidisis
Encyclopedia
Lepidisis is a genus
of deep-sea
bamboo coral
of the Isididae family. It contains eleven or twelve species.
Lepidisis cyanae - Grasshoff, 1986
Lepidisis evalinae - Bayer, 1989
Lepidisis inermis - Studer, 1894
Lepidisis longiflora - Verrill, 1883
Lepidisis macrospiculata - (Kükenthal, 1919)
Lepidisis nuda - (Wright & Studer, 1889)
Lepidisis olapa - Muzik, 1978
Lepidisis rigida - (Kükenthal, 1919)
Lepidisis simplex - (Verrill, 1883)
Lepidisis solitaria - Grant, 1976
Lepidisis vitrea - Verrill, 1883 (may be synonymous with Lepidisis caryophyllia)
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of deep-sea
Deep sea
The deep sea, or deep layer, is the lowest layer in the ocean, existing below the thermocline and above the seabed, at a depth of 1000 fathoms or more. Little or no light penetrates this part of the ocean and most of the organisms that live there rely for subsistence on falling organic matter...
bamboo coral
Coral
Corals are marine animals in class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria typically living in compact colonies of many identical individual "polyps". The group includes the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.A coral "head" is a colony of...
of the Isididae family. It contains eleven or twelve species.
Species
Lepidisis caryophyllia - Verrill, 1883Lepidisis cyanae - Grasshoff, 1986
Lepidisis evalinae - Bayer, 1989
Lepidisis inermis - Studer, 1894
Lepidisis longiflora - Verrill, 1883
Lepidisis macrospiculata - (Kükenthal, 1919)
Lepidisis nuda - (Wright & Studer, 1889)
Lepidisis olapa - Muzik, 1978
Lepidisis rigida - (Kükenthal, 1919)
Lepidisis simplex - (Verrill, 1883)
Lepidisis solitaria - Grant, 1976
Lepidisis vitrea - Verrill, 1883 (may be synonymous with Lepidisis caryophyllia)