Leptophytidae is a family of
corals
Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the subphylum Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact Colony (biology), colonies of many identical individual polyp (zoology), polyps. Coral species include the important Coral ...
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The following text should be considered a historical, outdated way of treatin ...
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Genera:
* ''
Circularius''
McFadden & van Ofwegen, 2017
* ''
Leptophyton''
van Ofwegen & Schleyer, 1997
* ''
Porphyrophyton''
McFadden & van Ofwegen, 2017
* ''
Tenerodus''
McFadden & van Ofwegen, 2017
References
Alcyoniina
Cnidarian families
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