• Class Anthozoa Exclusively marine solitary or colonial Cnidarians in which the medusoid stage is completely absent and the polyp complex with a septate gastrovscular cavity (Sea anemones, hard corals soft corals gorgonians and and sea pens.)

  Subclass Zooantharia*  (Hexacorallia)* Exclusively marine solitary or colonial polypoid (Polyps with more than eight tentacles and mesenteries, the latter typically in cycles of 12)

  Ceriantipitheria

  • Order Antipatharia* (Black or thorny corals.  Georgonian-like species with an upright plant-like colonies.  Polyps arranged around an axial skeleton composed of a black horny material and bearing thorns.  Largly in deep water tropical seas.  Antipathes*)
  • Order Ceriantharia* (Tube anemones Anemone-like anthozoans with greatly elongate bodies adapted for living in secreted tubes buried in sand or mud.  Aboral end lacks pedal disk.  Arachnanthus, Botruanthus, Ceriantheomorphe, Ceriantheopsis, Cerianthus)

September 29, 2013