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.

Acanthogorgia sp. 1	Acanthogorgia? sp. 2	Acanthogorgia? sp. 3
Acanthogorgia? sp. 4	Acanthogorgia? sp. 5	Annella mollis
Astrogorgia sp. 1	Astrogorgia? sp. 2	Briareum violaceum
Capnella sp. 1	Carijoa sp.	Chironephthya spp.?
Cladiella cf australis	Dendronephthya spp.?	Ellisella ceratophyta
Ellisella sp. 1	Ellisella? sp. 3	Heliania cf spinescens
Heliania sp. 1	Iciligorgia cf rubra	Ifalukella yanii
Keroeides gracilis	Keroeides sp. 1	Keroeides sp. 2
Keroeides sp. 4	Klyxum sp. 1	Klyxum sp. 2
Litophyton? sp.	Lobophytum sp.	Lobophytum sp.
Lobophytum? spp.	Melithaea sp. 1	Melithaea? sp. 2
Melithaea? sp. 3	Menella? sp. 1	Muricella? sp. 1
Paraminabea aldersladei	Rumphella sp. 1	Sarcophyton spp.
Scleronephthya sp.	Sinularia cf brassica	Sclerophytum sp. 1
Sclerophytum sp. 2	Sclerophytum sp. 3	Siphonogorgia sp. 1
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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