Octocorallia | SpringerLink
WEBOctocorallia (also known as octocorals, or in earlier times “Alcyonaria”) are a subclass of the class Anthozoa, in the phylum Cnidaria. They are sessile polyp-bearing animals with a …
Glowing octocorals have been around for at least 540 million years
WEBApr 23, 2024 · More than half a billion years ago, the deep, dark ocean was aglow with the eerie light of bioluminescent corals, new genetic and fossil analyses suggest. The …
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The Global Diversity of Sea Pens (Cnidaria: Octocorallia …
WEBJul 29, 2011 · The thin tissue of sea pens is called the coenenchyme, and as in all octocorals, is composed of three layers: the outer epidermis and an inner gastrodermis, with a mesogleal layer in the middle. The mesoglea …
Octocorallia - Animalia
WEBOctocorallia (also known as Alcyonaria) is a class of Anthozoa comprising over 3,000 species of marine organisms formed of colonial polyps with 8-fold symmetry.
Introduction to the Octocorallia - University of …
WEBIntroduction to the Octocorallia. Although commonly called "soft corals," the Octocorallia are not close relatives of the Scleractinia , or "true corals" living today. Unlike true corals, which have hexaradial symmetry, …
Frontiers | Species Delimitation of Hexacorallia and …
WEBIn this study, a fast and cheap species delimitation tool for Octocorallia and Scleractinia, an order of the Hexacorallia, of the Northeast Atlantic was tested based on 49 specimens. Two nuclear markers (ITS2 and 28S …
Molecular Phylogenetic Insights into the Evolution of Octocorallia: …
WEBMay 22, 2010 · The anthozoan sub-class Octocorallia, comprising approximately 3000 species of soft corals, gorgonians, and sea pens, remains one of the most poorly …
Octocorallia - Wikipedia
WEBOctocorallia vormen een onderklasse van de klasse bloemdieren. Onder andere de zachte koralen en gorgonen vallen hieronder. Een andere, verouderde naam voor deze …
Deep-sea octocorals: An ecosystem of their own
WEBDeep-sea octocorals: An ecosystem of their own. Octocorals dominated the seafloor on Chris Mah's Okeanos mission to Johnston Atoll in the remote Pacific Ocean. (NOAA …
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