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

Scleralcyonacea McFadden, van Ofwegen & Quattrini, 2022

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Order group names

Calcaxonia Grasshoff, 1999 synonym

Children

Briareidae Gray, 1859
Chelidonisididae Heestand Saucier, France & Watling, 2021
Chrysogorgiidae Verrill, 1883
Coralliidae Lamouroux, 1812
Cornulariidae Dana, 1846
Ellisellidae Gray, 1859
Keratoisididae Gray, 1870
Mopseidae Gray, 1870
Pennatuloidea Ehrenberg, 1834
Primnoidae Milne Edwards, 1857
Sarcodictyonidae McFadden, van Ofwegen & Quattrini, 2024

Literature

original description

McFadden, C.S.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Quattrini, A.M. (2022). Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists. 1(3), 8735, pp. 1-79.

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Scleralcyonacea. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1609355

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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2022-11-02 by Cathy McFadden

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