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APPENDIX: Classification

Class Anthozoa Subclass Octocorallia (or Alcyonaria)

Order Stolonifera (organ-pipe coral and tree fern coral)
Order Telestacea (Telesto)
Order Alcyonacea (soft corals such as leather corals and tree corals)
Order Coenothecalia (Indo-Pacific blue coral)
Order Gorgonacea (gorgonian corals including sea fans, red coral, sea whips, and sea feathers) Order Pennatulacea (sea pens and sea pansies)

Subclass Zoantharia

Order Zoanthidea (anemonelike anthozoans)
Order Actiniaria (sea anemones)
Order Scleractinia or Madreporaria (reef-building corals such as star corals, brain corals, staghorn corals, mushroom corals, and bubble corals)
Order Rugosa or Tetracoralla (extinct solitary corals)
Order Corallimorpharia (resemble true corals but lack skeletons)
Order Ceriantharia (anemonelike anthozoans)
Order Antipatharia (black corals)

Subclass Tabulata (extinct colonial anthozoans)

Bibliography

SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database
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