Order Alcyonacea (soft corals)

The Alcyonacea includes the soft corals and gorgonians, plus a few with hard skeletons such as Tubipora. A characteristic feature of members of the group is polyps that bear 8 pinnate tentacles. Many species from the Marshall Islands remain unidentified and even generic placement of the animals in some of these photos is uncertain.

Acanthomuricea sp. 1	Acanthogorgia sp. 1	Acanthogorgia? sp. 2
Acanthogorgia? sp. 3	Acanthogorgia? sp. 4	Acanthogorgia? sp. 5
Acanthogorgia sp. 6	Acanthogorgia sp. 7	Annella mollis
Astrogorgia dumbea	Astrogorgia sp. 1	Astrogorgia? sp. 2
Briareum violaceum	Carijoa sp.	Chironephthya spp.?
Chironephthya? sp. 2	Chironephthya sp. 3	Cladiella cf australis
Dendronephthya spp.?	Echinomuricea sp. 1	Ellisella ceratophyta
Ellisella sp. 1	Ellisella? sp. 3	Heliania cf spinescens
Heliania sp. 1	Ifalukella yanii	Keroeides gracilis
Keroeides sp. 1	Keroeides sp. 2	Keroeides sp. 4
Klyxum sp. 1	Klyxum sp. 2	Litophyton sp. 2
Litophyton? sp.	Lobophytum sp.	Lobophytum sp.
Lobophytum? spp.	Malacalcyonacea sp.	Melithaea sp. 1
Melithaea? sp. 3	Paraminabea aldersladei	Rumphella sp. 1
Sarcophyton spp.	Scleronephthya sp.	Sinularia cf brassica
Sclerophytum sp. 1	Sclerophytum sp. 2	Sclerophytum sp. 3
Subergorgia suberosa	Telestula sp. 1	Tubipora musica
Verrucella sp. 1	Virgularia? sp. 1	Xenia sp.
Gorgonian sp. 1	Gorgonian sp. 2	Gorgonian sp. 3
Gorgonian sp. 6	Gorgonian sp. 7	Gorgonian sp. 8
Gorgonian sp. 9	Gorgonian sp. 10	Gorgonian sp. 11
Gorgonian sp. 12	Gorgonian sp. 13	Gorgonian sp. 15
Gorgonian sp. 16	Gorgonian sp. 17	Gorgonian sp. 21
Gorgonian sp. 22	Gorgonian sp. 23	Gorgonian sp. 25
Gorgonian sp. 26	Soft coral sp. 5

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