Sea pens are marine cnidarians belonging to the superfamily Pennatuloidea, fleshy colonial organisms anchored to the seabed with tiny polyps embedded in a soft matrix. They have a cosmopolitan distribution, found in tropical and temperate waters worldwide, from shallow intertidal zones to deep seas of more than 6,100 meters.
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Sea pens are marine cnidarians belonging to the superfamily Pennatuloidea.
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Sea pens are marine cnidarians belonging to the superfamily Pennatuloidea.
- In Ecosystem: Deep Sea, Wikipedia intro: "ribution, being found in tropical and temperate waters worldwide, from intertidal shallow waters to deep seas of more than 6,100 m (20,000 ft). The earliest acc..."
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