Gray, 1870
Menella (2)
Type species: Menella indica Gray, 1870
Total number of species estimated: 10
Description: Colonies forming sparsely branched fans or bushes with long, cylindrical upright branches. Polyps arranged all around the branches. Colour of colonies red, yellow, purple. Surface of coenenchyme with sclerites with vertically placed leaves. Mostly, these leaves are flat and thin. Interior with spindles and irregular sclerites. Zooxanthellae absent.
Habitat: Reef slope.
Range: Tropical Indo-Pacific
Remarks: Formerly Menella species were classified in Echinogorgia and Plexauroides.