Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Classis: Anthozoa
Subclassis: Alcyonaria
Ordo: Pennatulacea
Subordo: Subselliflorae
Familia: Pennatulidae
Genus: Pennatula
Species: P. aculeata
Pennatula is a genus of sea pens in the family Pennatulidae. The genus contains several bioluminescent species, including Pennatula rubra, Pennatula phosphorea, and Pennatula aculeata.[2][3]
References
Cordeiro, R.; van Ofwegen, L.; Williams, G. (2019). World List of Octocorallia. Pennatula Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=128495 Archived 2015-04-08 at the Wayback Machine on 2019-05-01
Herring, Peter J. (1987). "Systematic distribution of bioluminescence in living organisms". Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence. 1 (3): 147–163. doi:10.1002/bio.1170010303. PMID 3503524.
Williams, Gary (2001). "First record of a bioluminescent soft coral: description of a disjunct population of Eleutherobia grayi (Thomson and Dean, 1921) from the Solomon Islands, with a review of bioluminescence in the Octocorallia". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 52: 209–225.
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