1. Family Chrysogorgiidae Verrill, 1883
2. Family Coralliidae Lamouroux, 1812
3. Family Cornulariidae Dana, 1846
4. Family Ellisellidae Gray, 1859
5. Family Helioporidae Moseley, 1876
6. Superfamily Pennatuloidea Ehrenberg, 1834
7. Suborder Calcaxonia accepted as Scleralcyonacea

marine, fresh, terrestrial

McFadden, C.S.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Quattrini, A.M. (2022). Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics. <em>Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists.</em> 1(3), 8735, pp. 1-79., available online at https://ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb/article/view/8735
page(s): 21 [details] 

ChaRMS (2025). Scleralcyonacea. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1609355 on 2025-03-12

Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2025). Chinese Register of Marine Species. Scleralcyonacea. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1609355 on 2025-03-12

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