Acanthogorgiidae is a family of
cnidaria
Cnidaria () is a phylum under kingdom Animalia containing over 11,000 species of aquatic animals found both in freshwater and marine environments, predominantly the latter.
Their distinguishing feature is cnidocytes, specialized cells that ...
ns belonging to the order
Alcyonacea
Alcyonacea, or soft corals, are an order of corals. In addition to the fleshy soft corals, the order Alcyonacea now contains all species previously known as "gorgonian corals", that produce a more or less hard skeleton, though quite different f ...
.
Genera:
* ''
Acanthogorgia''
Gray, 1857
* ''
Anthogorgia''
Verrill, 1868
* ''
Ascolepis''
* ''
Calcigorgia''
Broch, 1935
* ''
Calicogorgia''
Thomson & Henderson, 1906
* ''
Callicigorgia''
* ''
Cyclomuricea''
Nutting, 1908
* ''
Muricella
''Muricella'' is a genus of corals
Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. Coral species include the important reef builders ...
''
Verrill, 1868
* ''
Versluysia''
Nutting, 1910
References
Holaxonia
Cnidarian families
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