''Lanthanocephalus'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

genus of coral in the subclassis

Octocorallia Octocorallia, along with Hexacorallia, is one of the two extant classes of Anthozoa. It comprises over 3,000 species of marine and brackish animals consisting of colonial polyps with 8-fold symmetry, commonly referred informally as "soft cora ...

.Williams & Starmer (2000). A new genus and species of soft coral (Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from South Africa. ''Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences'' 52(8): 87-96. ''Lanthanocephalus clandestinus'' is the only species described, and is endemic to South Africa.

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Alcyoniidae Monotypic cnidarian genera Octocorallia genera {{octocorallia-stub