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Alcyonacea 
AphiaID: 1365

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass)
Authority Lamouroux, 1812
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Order
Parent Octocorallia
Synonymised
taxa		  Gorgonacea
Sources  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. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record: 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 (look up in IMIS) [details]

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, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01668p182.pdf [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch waaierkoralen (from synonym)  [details]
Dutch zachte koralen  [details]
English gorgonians (from synonym)  [details]
English gorgonians, sea fans, and sea feathers (from synonym)  [details]
English horny corals (from synonym)  [details]
English soft corals  [details]
Swedish hornkoraller (from synonym)  [details]
Direct child
taxa		 Family Acanthoaxiidae van Ofwegen & McFadden, 2010
Suborder Alcyoniina
Suborder Calcaxonia
Family Haimeidae Wright, 1865
Suborder Holaxonia
Suborder Protoalcyonaria
Suborder Scleraxonia
Suborder Stolonifera
Family Viguieriotidae
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1365
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2010-09-14 06:31:48Z  changed  van Ofwegen, Leen
  
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  Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Alcyonacea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1365 on 2013-05-23
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