The New Octocorallia: Malacalcyonacea Part 2

[Reef Builders]

In our previous installment of this series, we met with a diverse array of Soft Corals and Gorgonians, including most of the species familiar to aquarists. Amongst these were a hodgepodge of ex-Scleraxonia, ex-Stolonifera, and ex-Alcyonacea genera, now all lumped together as a messy shrubbery of clades within the newly recognized order Malacalcyonacea. Before we…
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