Paralcyoniidae is a

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soft corals 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 ...

in the phylum

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, ...

Genera

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includes the following genera in this family : * '' Carotalcyon'' Utinomi, 1952 * '' Ceeceenus'' van Ofwegen & Benayahu, 2006 * '' Dimorphophyton'' Williams, 2000 * ''

Maasella ''Maasella'' is a genus of soft coral in the family Paralcyoniidae. It is monotypic, with only a single species, ''Maasella edwardsi''. Usually of greenish brown or golden brown color, each polyp has eight pinnate tentacles. This soft coral is f ...

'' Poche, 1914 * '' Nanalcyon'' Imahara, 2013 * '' Paralcyonium'' Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1850 * '' Studeriotes'' Thomson & Simpson, 1909

References

Taxa named by John Edward Gray Alcyoniina Cnidarian families {{Octocorallia-stub