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Ellisella paraplexauroides
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Octocorallia
Order:	Alcyonacea
Family:	Ellisellidae
Genus:	Ellisella
Species:	E. paraplexauroides
Binomial name
Ellisella paraplexauroides Stiasny, 1936

Ellisella paraplexauroides is a vulnerable gorgonian considered among the largest colonial invertebrates of the Mediterranean Sea.

It has an unusual restricted and uneven distribution, with isolated and extremely sparse colonies in a few sites in the Alboran Sea, the coasts of Algeria and Tunisia, and in the Strait of Sicily, with an exceptionally dense and rich population around the Natura 2000 site on Chafarinas Islands, where its colonies make a unique seascape.

References

1. Maldonado, M.; Ocaña, O.; Garcia, S.; Betti, F.; Caroselli, E. (2015). "Ellisella paraplexauroides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015. IUCN: e.T50011764A50605921.
2. ^ Otero, M. del M.; Numa, C.; Bo, m.; Orejas, C.; Garrabou, J.; Cerrano, C.; Kružić, P.; Antoniadou, C.; Aguilar, R.; Kipson, S.; Linares, C.; Terrón-Sigler, A.; Brossard, J.; Kersting, D.; Casado-Amezúa, P.; García, S.; Goffredo, S.; Ocaña, O.; Caroselli, E.; Maldonado, M.; Bavestrello, G.; Cattaneo-Vietti, R.; Özalp, B. (2017), "Overview of the Conservation Status of Mediterranean Anthozoa" (PDF), Overview of the Conservation Status of Mediterranean Anthozoa, IUCN Redlist, IUCN

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