:Coeloplana loyai
{{Short description|Species of comb jelly}}
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| taxon = Coeloplana loyai
| authority = Alamaru & Brokovich, 2015
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Coeloplana loyai is a species of benthic comb jelly.{{cite WoRMS |title=Coeloplana loyai |year=2021 |id=867230 |access-date=10 September 2021}} It is known from the Red Sea and lives as an episymbiont on the mushroom corals Herpolitha limax and Ctenactis echinata. It can be differentiated from congeneric species by their host, colour, and colour pattern.{{cite journal|last1=Alamaru|first1=Ada|last2=Brokovich|first2=Eran|last3=Loya|first3=Yossi |name-list-style=amp |title=Four new species and three new records of benthic ctenophores (Family: Coeloplanidae) from the Red Sea |journal=Marine Biodiversity |volume=46|issue=1|year=2015|pages=261–279 |doi=10.1007/s12526-015-0362-4|s2cid=14572230 }}
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Category:Animals described in 2015
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