Alcyoniina
Sign in to saveThe suborder Alcyoniina (in some systems classified as the order Alcyonacea in the narrowest sense) is a former octocoralian taxon belonging to the broadly conceived order Alcyonacea.
Species
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Suborder
- PhylumCnidaria
- ClassOctocorallia
- OrderMalacalcyonacea
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3
- Family
- Na
- Collections
- HBOI-FAU
- Recorded in
- Costa Rica, Ecuador, Usa, Virgin Islands
Wikidata facts
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- Parent taxon
- Alcyonacea
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Encyclopedic overview
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The suborder Alcyoniina (in some systems classified as the order Alcyonacea in the narrowest sense) is a former octocoralian taxon belonging to the broadly conceived order Alcyonacea.
Since a 2022 revision, almost all the families of former Alcyoniina belong to the order Malacalcyonacea, within which, however, they do not form a monophyletic taxon. Only the problematic (see below) Alcyoniinan family Parasphaerascleridae now belongs to the order Scleralcyonacea.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alcyoniina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.