Scleralcyonacea, previously referred to as Calcaxonia, is an order of soft corals in the class
Octocorallia
Octocorallia (also known as Alcyonaria) is a class of Anthozoa comprising around 3,000 species of water-based organisms formed of colonial polyps with 8-fold symmetry. It includes the blue coral, soft corals, sea pens, and gorgonians (sea fan ...
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Families
Families belonging to the order include:
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Aulopsammiidae (Reuss, 1854)
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Briareidae
Briareidae is a family of corals, a member of the phylum Cnidaria.
Genera
Genera in this family include:
* ''Briareum
''Briareum'' is a genus of soft corals in the family Briareidae. The coral is cultivated by aquarium owners for its fluor ...
(Gray, 1859)
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Chelidonisididae (Heestand Saucier, France & Watling, 2021)
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Chrysogorgiidae
Chrysogorgiidae is a family of soft corals in the suborder Calcaxonia.
References
* Bayer, F.M. and K.M. Muzik. 1976. New genera and species of the holaxonian family Chrysogorgiidae (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leide ...
(Verrill, 1883)
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Coralliidae
Coralliidae, also known as precious corals, is a taxonomic family of soft corals belonging to the phylum Cnidaria of the family Scleraxonia. These sessile corals are one of the most dominant members of hard-bottomed benthic environments such as s ...
(Lamouroux, 1812)
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Cornulariidae (Dana, 1846)
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Dendrobrachiidae
Dendrobrachiidae is a family of cnidarians belonging to the order Alcyonacea
Alcyonacea, or soft corals, are an order of corals. In addition to the fleshy soft corals, the order Alcyonacea now contains all species previously known as "gorgoni ...
(Brook, 1889)
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Ellisellidae (Gray, 1859)
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Erythropodiidae (Kükenthal, 1916)
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Helioporidae (Moseley, 1876)
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Ideogorgiidae (McFadden, van Ofwegen & Quattrini, 2024)
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Ifalukellidae (Bayer, 1955)
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Isidoidae (Heestand Saucier, France & Watling, 2021)
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Keratoisididae
Bamboo coral, family Isididae, is a family of mostly deep-sea coral of the phylum Cnidaria. It is a commonly recognized inhabitant of the deep sea, due to the clearly articulated skeletons of the species. Deep water coral species such as th ...
(Gray, 1870)
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Mopseidae (Gray, 1870)
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Parasphaerascleridae (McFadden & van Ofwegen, 2013)
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Parisididae
''Parisis'' is a genus of corals in the monotypic family Parisididae.
Species
Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A s ...
(Aurivillius, 1931)
References
Bibliography
* Taxonomic Study of Suborder Calcaxonia (Alcyonacea: Octocorallia: Anthozoa) from King Sejong Station, Antarctic. Song Jun-Im, Hwang Sung-Jin, Moon Haewon and An In-Young, Animal Systematics, 30 Apr 2012, Evolution and Diversity Volume 28, Issue2, pages 84~96,
External links
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Alcyonacea
Cnidarian suborders
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