Clavularia crassa

Clavularia crassa
C. crassa with egg clusters
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Anthozoa
Class: Octocorallia
Order: Alcyonacea
Family: Clavulariidae
Genus: Clavularia
Species:
C. crassa
Binomial name
Clavularia crassa
Synonyms
  • Clavularia inordinata Tixier-Durivault & Lafargue, 1968
  • Clavularia ochracea Von Koch, 1878
  • Clavularia petricola Kowalevsky & Marion, 1882
  • Clavularia steveninoae d'Hondt & Tixier-Durivault, 1975

Clavularia crassa is a species of colonial soft coral in the family Clavulariidae. It is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It was first described in 1848 by the French zoologist Henri Milne-Edwards from a specimen collected off the coast of Algeria.