Alcyoniina

Alcyoniina
Sarcophyton in Flynn Reef, part of the Great Barrier Reef, near Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Anthozoa
Class: Octocorallia
Order: Alcyonacea
Suborder: Alcyoniina
Lamouroux, 1816

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.

Members of Alcyoniina are found mainly in the Pacific and Indian oceans.[citation needed]

Families

The World Register of Marine Species listed the following families in the suborder Alcyoniina in October 2022:

The family Parasphaerascleridae was sometimes also included in the suborder. Alternatively, it was classified as incertae sedis within Alcyonacea.

References

  1. 1 2 Australia, Atlas of Living. "Suborder: ALCYONIINA". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
  2. ↑ McFadden, Catherine S.; Ofwegen, Leen P. VAN (2017-12-12). "Revisionary systematics of the endemic soft coral fauna (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniina) of the Agulhas Bioregion, South Africa". Zootaxa. 4363 (4): 451–488–451–488. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4363.4.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 29245386. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  3. ↑ "Subclass Alcyonaria". inverts.wallawalla.edu.
  4. 1 2 3 McFadden, C.S.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Quattrini, A.M. (2022). Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists. 1(3), 8735, pp. 1-79
  5. ↑ "Alcyoniina". World Register of Marine Species. 2025-08-06. Archived from the original on 2022-10-03. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
  6. ↑ "Parasphaerascleridae McFadden & van Ofwegen, 2013". World Register of Marine Species. 2025-08-06. Archived from the original on 2022-10-01. Retrieved 2025-08-06.