Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa

Hexacorallia Haeckel, 1896

Rank: Subclass
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

*Zoantharia*	de Blainville, 1830	synonym

Actiniaria
Antipatharia
Ceriantharia
Corallimorpharia
Scleractinia
Zoantharia Gray, 1832

Dutch: hexakoralen

original description	Haeckel, E.1896. Systematische Phylogenie. Entwurf eines Natürlichen Systems der Organismen auf Grund ihrer Stammesgeschichte: 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	Vaughan, T.W. & Wells, J.W. 1943. Revision of the suborders, families and genera of the Scleractinia. Special Papers of the Geological Society of America 44: 1–363.
additional source	Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World.

Hoeksema, B. (2014). Hexacorallia. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1340