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

Hexacorallia Haeckel, 1896

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Class group names

*Zoantharia*	de Blainville, 1830	synonym

Children

Actiniaria Hertwig, 1882
Antipatharia
Ceriantharia Perrier, 1893
Ceriantipatharia Van Beneden, 1898
Corallimorpharia Carlgren, 1943
Scleractinia Bourne, 1900
Zoantharia Gray, 1832

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: hexakoralen sources: de Ruijter, E.; Schoenmaker, A. (Ed.) (1989). Zeeboek [The sea book]. 2nd revised ed. Jeugdbondsuitgeverij JBU / Stichting Uitgeverij KNNV: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5107-007-1. 238 pp.

English: hexacorallians; hexacorals 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: Hexakorallen 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: 六放サンゴ亜綱

Literature

original description	Haeckel, E. (1896). Systematische Phylogenie. Entwurf eines Natürlichen Systems der Organismen auf Grund ihrer Stammesgeschichte. Zweiter Theil: Systematische Phylogenie der wirbellosen Thiere (Invertebrata). Berlin, Georg Reimer.
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.
additional source	Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World.
additional source	Vaughan TW, Wells JW. (1943). Revision of the suborders, families and genera of the Scleractinia. Special Papers of the Geological Society of America. 44: 1-363.
status source	Collins, A. G. (2009). Recent insights into cnidarian phylogeny. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences. 38: 139-149.