Alcyonacea

Alcyonium palmatum

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Cnidaria
Classis: Anthozoa
Subclassis: Octocorallia
Ordo: Alcyonacea
Subordines: Alcyoniina - Calcaxonia - Holaxonia - Protoalcyonaria - Scleraxonia - Stolonifera

incertae sedis: Families Acanthoaxiidae - Dendrobrachiidae – Haimeidae - Parasphaerascleridae + Genus Speirogorgia

References

• 2010: Invertebrate systematics, 24: 23–31. DOI: 10.1071/IS09033
• Aurelle, D., Pante, E., Ledoux, J-B. & Sartoretto, S. 2019. Advances on the phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic octocoral Dendrobrachia Brook 1889. Zootaxa 4674(1): 117–126. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4674.1.6 Reference page. 
• Bayer, F.M. 1981. Key to the genera of Octocorallia exclusive of Pennatulacea (Coelenterata: Anthozoa), with diagnoses of new taxa. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 94(3): 902-947. BHL Reference page. 
• McFadden, C.S.; van Ofwegen, L.P. 2013. Molecular phylogenetic evidence supports a new family of octocorals and a new genus of Alcyoniidae (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). ZooKeys 346: 59–83. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.346.6270 Reference page. 
• Ofwegen, L.P., van; McFadden, C.S. 2010: A new family of octocorals (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from Cameroon waters. Journal of natural history, 44: 23–29. DOI: 10.1080/00222930903359669
• Williams, G.C. 2013: New taxa and revisionary systematics of alcyonacean octocorals from the Pacific coast of North America (Cnidaria, Anthozoa). ZooKeys 283: 15-42. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.283.4803 Reference page. 
• Williams, G.C. & S.D. Cairns. 2006 (rev.) Systematic List of valid Octocoral Genera.[1]

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Weichkorallen
English: Soft corals
suomi: Pehmytkorallit
magyar: Szarukorallok
日本語: ウミトサカ目
中文: 軟珊瑚