🦋 Family

Alcyoniidae

5 species · Animals

Animalia › Cnidaria › Anthozoa › Malacalcyonacea › Alcyoniidae

Alcyonium glomeratum, or red sea fingers, is a soft coral with a described distribution, habitat and appearance.

Alcyonium coralloides is a soft coral with variable growth habits, found in the Mediterranean and northeast Atlantic, often parasitic on sea fans.

Alcyonium digitatum, commonly called dead man's fingers, is a common colonial soft coral found in multiple Atlantic coastal regions.

Alcyonium acaule is a Mediterranean-endemic soft coral that frequently forms dense shaded-water agglomerations.

Gersemia rubiformis is a non-zooxanthellate colonial soft coral found in cold North American Atlantic and Pacific coastal waters.

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