Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa

Octocorallia Haeckel, 1866

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Class group names

*Alcyonacea*	Lamouroux, 1812	synonym
*Gorgonacea*	Lamouroux, 1816	synonym

Children

Malacalcyonacea McFadden, van Ofwegen & Quattrini, 2022
Octocorallia incertae sedis
Scleralcyonacea McFadden, van Ofwegen & Quattrini, 2022

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: octocorallians; octocorals sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Oktokorallen sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: 八放サンゴ亜綱

Literature

basis of record	Daly, M., M.R. Brugler, P. Cartwright, A.G. Collins, M.N. Dawson, D.G. Fautin, S.C. France, C.S. McFadden, D.M. Opresko, E. Rodriquez, S.L. Romano, J.L. Stake. (2007). The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. Zootaxa. (1668): 127-182.
status source	Collins, A. G. (2009). Recent insights into cnidarian phylogeny. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences. 38: 139-149.