Dendrobrachiidae

	Dendrobrachiidae Dendrobrachiidae is a family of cnidarians belonging to the order Alcyonacea Alcyonacea is the old scientific order name for the informal group known as "soft corals". It is now an unaccepted name for class Octocorallia. It became deprecated . The following text should be considered a historical, outdated way of treatin .... Genera: * '' Dendrobrachia'' Brook, 1889 References Holaxonia Cnidarian families {{octocorallia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Alcyonacea Alcyonacea is the old scientific order name for the informal group known as "soft corals". It is now an unaccepted name for class Octocorallia. It became deprecated . The following text should be considered a historical, outdated way of treating the taxonomy of Anthozoa and Octocorallia. Some, or many parts of it, are no longer valid. Any remaining information found to be still valid, should be carefully merged into Octocorallia. Alcyonacea are an order of sessile colonial cnidarians that are found throughout the oceans of the world, especially in the deep sea, polar waters, tropics and subtropics. Whilst not in a strict taxonomic sense, Alcyonacea are commonly known as soft corals. The term "soft coral" generally applies to organisms in the two orders Pennatulacea and Alcyonacea with their polyps embedded within a fleshy mass of coenenchymal tissue. Consequently, the term "gorgonian coral" is commonly handed to multiple species in the order Alcyonacea that produce a min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Holaxonia Holaxonia is a suborder of soft corals, a member of the phylum Cnidaria.Holaxonia World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2011-12-03. Members of this suborder are sometimes known as gorgonians and include the sea blades, the sea fans, the sea rods and the sea whips. These soft corals are colonial, sessile organisms and are generally tree-like in structure. They do not have a hard skeleton composed of calcium carbonate but have a firm but pliable, central axial skeleton composed of a fibrous protein called [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Cnidaria Cnidaria ( ) is a phylum under kingdom Animalia containing over 11,000 species of aquatic invertebrates found both in fresh water, freshwater and marine environments (predominantly the latter), including jellyfish, hydroid (zoology), hydroids, sea anemones, corals and some of the smallest marine parasites. Their distinguishing features are an uncentralized nervous system distributed throughout a gelatinous body and the presence of cnidocytes or cnidoblasts, specialized cells with ejectable flagella used mainly for envenomation and capturing prey. Their bodies consist of mesoglea, a non-living, jelly-like substance, sandwiched between two layers of epithelium that are mostly one cell (biology), cell thick. Cnidarians are also some of the few animals that can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Cnidarians mostly have two basic body forms: swimming medusa (biology), medusae and sessility (motility), sessile polyp (zoology), polyps, both of which are radially symmetrical with mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Dendrobrachia ''Phlogites'' is a member of the extinct ambulacrarian stem group Cambroernida, occupying an intermediate position between the basal '' Herpetogaster'' and the more derived Eldonioidea. It is known from the Lower Cambrian Haikou Chengjiang deposits of China. Description Phlogites was a cup-shaped animal with a branching tentacular feeding system leading to a dextrally coiled gut with a lateral anus. Sources differ as to the number of tentacles, with two, three, three or five, or four or five tentacles said to be on the anterior part of the calyx. Smooth semi-circular lobes are present between the tentacles. Compared to the earlier-diverging cambroernid ''Herpetogaster'', ''Phlogites'' lacked segmentation and had a more massive stolon that is contiguous with the body. The coiling present in the external form of ''Herpetogaster'' became internal, except for a small lobate extension with the anus opening laterally. The tentacles of ''Phlogites'' were also more massive, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]