Alcyoniidae

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

FAMILY

Published in

Lamouroux, J.V.F. 1812. Extrait d'un mémoire sur la classification des polypes coralligènes non entièrement pierreux. Nouv. Bull. Sci. Soc. philom. Paris, 3 (5me année) 63: 181-188.

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Cnidaria

class

Anthozoa

order

Malacalcyonacea

family

Alcyoniidae

Name

Synonyms

Alcyonidae

Anthothelidae

Bellonelladae

Lobulariadae

Homonyms

Alcyoniidae

Common names

true soft corals in language.

Lederkorallen in German

Weichkorallen in German

alcyoniids in English

soft corals in English

ウミトサカ科 in Japanese

Bibliographic References

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3. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
4. Cairns, Stephen D., Dale R. Calder, Anita Brinckmann-Voss, Clovis B. Castro, Daphne G. Fautin,..., 2002: Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophora, Second Edition, 2002. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 28. xi + 115.
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7. Hwang, S. J.; Song, J. I. (2007). Reproductive biology and larval development of the temperate soft coral Dendronephthya gigantea (Alcyonacea: Nephtheidae). Marine Biology, 152, 273-284
8. McFadden, C.S.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Quattrini, A.M. (2022). Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics. <em>Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists.</em> 1(3), 8735, pp. 1-79.
9. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
10. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
11. van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 104-105