Soft corals

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Octocorallia

Alcyonacea is the old scientific order name for the informal group known as "soft corals". It is now an unaccepted name for class Octocorallia. It became deprecated c. 2022.^[1]^[2]

References

^ McFadden, Cathy (2022-11-02). "Alcyonacea. Lamouroux, 1812". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
^ McFadden, Catherine S.; Van Ofwegen, Leen P.; Quattrini, Andrea M. (2022). "Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics". Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists. 1 (3). doi:10.18061/bssb.v1i3.8735.

[wormsAlcyonacea-1] McFadden, Cathy (2022-11-02). "Alcyonacea. Lamouroux, 1812". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2025-05-16.

[McFadden2022RSOct-2] McFadden, Catherine S.; Van Ofwegen, Leen P.; Quattrini, Andrea M. (2022). "Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics". Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists. 1 (3). doi:10.18061/bssb.v1i3.8735.

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