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

Alcyonacea Lamouroux, 1812

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Order group names

Gorgonacea Lamouroux, 1816 synonym

Children

Alcyoniina
Calcaxonia Grasshoff, 1999
Holaxonia Studer, 1887
Scleraxonia Studer, 1887
Stolonifera Thomson & Simpson, 1909

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: waaierkoralen; zachte koralen sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.
 English: gorgonians; gorgonians, sea fans, and sea feathers; horny corals; soft corals sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 English-United States: soft corals sources: Charles Hussey
 Swedish: hornkoraller

Literature

basis of record

Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.

additional source

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

Bayer, F.M. (1981). Key to the genera of Octocorallia exclusive of Pennatulacea (Coelenterata: Anthozoa), with diagnoses of new taxa Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 94(3): 902-947

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Citation

van Ofwegen, L. (2014). Alcyonacea. 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:1365

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

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2010-09-14 by Leen van Ofwegen

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