Octocorallia
It includes the blue coral, soft corals, sea pens, and gorgonians (sea fans and sea whips) within three orders: Alcyonacea, Helioporacea, and Pennatulacea.
Introduction to the Octocorallia
Introduction to the Octocorallia. Although commonly called "soft corals," the Octocorallia are not close relatives of the Scleractinia, or "true corals" living ...
World Register of Marine Species - Octocorallia - WoRMS
Octocorallia ... AphiaID ... 1341 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1341) ... Classification ... Authority ... Haeckel, 1866 ... Status ... accepted ... Rank ... Class ... Parent.
Octocorals (Subclass Octocorallia) - iNaturalist
Octocorallia (also known Alcyonaria) is a subclass of Anthozoa comprising around 3000 species of water-based organisms formed of colonial polyps with 8-fold ...
The New Octocorallia: A Brief Review of Taxonomic Chaos
Soft Corals, Gorgonians, and Sea Pens comprise the Octocorallia, a major branch in the coral tree of life whose 3000+ species come in nearly ...
Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided ...
We used sequence data from target-capture of 739 ultraconserved and exon loci to reconstruct a fully resolved phylogeny for 185 octocoral taxa.
Definition. Octocorallia (also known as octocorals, or in earlier times “Alcyonaria”) are a subclass of the class Anthozoa, in the phylum Cnidaria. They are ...
A new genus and species of deep-sea Coralliidae (Octocorallia ...
A new octocoral species in a new genus is described from the northeastern Atlantic. For our study we integrate morphological and molecular information.
The Biology and Evolution of Calcite and Aragonite Mineralization in ...
Octocorallia (class Anthozoa, phylum Cnidaria) is a group of calcifying corals displaying a wide diversity of mineral skeletons.
A phylogenetic analysis of the Primnoidae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia
This genus is very distinctive with several unique characters, including a lack of coenenchymal scales and a small sac-like body covered by ...
Octocorallia - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Octocorallia is a subclass of the Anthozoa in the phylum Cnidaria. There are over 3.000 different species. These animals have an eight-fold symmetry.
A new genus of soft coral (Octocorallia, Malacalcyonacea ... - ZooKeys
Molecular systematic studies of the anthozoan class Octocorallia have revealed widespread incongruence between phylogenetic relationships ...
Chemical adaptations in the Octocorallia: evolutionary considerations
Here, we review and discuss some aspects of the chemical ecology of the Octocorallia, particularly the. Alcyonacea and Gorgonacea, and how it ...
Molecular Phylogenetic Insights into the Evolution of Octocorallia
A review of the available ITS2 sequence data for octocorals, however, reveals a yet-unexplored phylogenetic signal both at sequence and secondary-structure ...
Taxonomy browser (Octocorallia) - NCBI
THE NCBI Taxonomy database allows browsing of the taxonomy tree, which contains a classification of organisms.
(PDF) Octocorallia - ResearchGate
Octocorallia (also known as octocorals, or in earlier times “Alcyonaria”) are a subclass of the class Anthozoa, in the phylum Cnidaria.
Octocorallia - Oxford Reference
Quick Reference ... A subclass of sedentary, colonial corals with polyps that always have eight tentacles which are almost invariably pinnate. There are eight ...
Diversity and Distribution of Octocorallia - SpringerLink
Octocorals are distributed in all marine environments , but are generally conspicuous and diverse in shallow tropical reefs and in deep-sea ...
Evolution of bioluminescence in Anthozoa with emphasis on ...
Within Octocorallia, bioluminescence is prevalent across both shallow and deep habitats and appears most abundant between depths of ...
An enigmatic new octocoral species (Anthozoa, Octocorallia ...
Octocorals with (or rarely without) a proteinaceous skeletal axis. Axis hollow with wide, cross-chambered central core. Colonies encrusting or ...