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Isididae
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Isididae is a family of octocorals belonging to the order Malacalcyonacea and formerly to the order Calcaxonia. Currently, the family only includes the genera Isis, Hicksonella and Rumphella.
Species
bamboo corals
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumCnidaria
- ClassAnthozoa
- OrderMalacalcyonacea
- FamilyIsididae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 625
- With media
- 720
- Family
- Isididae
- Collections
- SIO, CAS, YPM
- Recorded in
- United States, Costa Rica, Antarctica
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Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Recent history of the classification of Isididae
- References
Isididae is a family of octocorals belonging to the order Malacalcyonacea and formerly to the order Calcaxonia. Currently, the family only includes the genera Isis, Hicksonella and Rumphella.
Prior to 2021/2016, the family Isididae included the genus Isis plus all the genera of the current families Chelidonisididae, Keratoisididae and Mopseidae, while the genera Hicksonella and Rumphella were included in the family Gorgoniidae in the former order Holaxonia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Isididae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.