Paramuricea clavata, the violescent sea-whip, is a species of colonial soft coral in the family Plexauridae.

The coenenchyme, a thin living layer of cells, covers the skeleton and the polyps protrude from this, each with eight feeding tentacles surrounding a central mouth.

[2] The violescent sea-whip is native to the coasts of Spain and Portugal in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, and to the western Mediterranean Sea.

[3] P. clavata is a filter feeder, the polyps extending their tentacles to catch food particles floating past.

Its diet includes copepods, diatoms, dinoflagellates, ciliates, and organic carbon particles in suspension.