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Octocorallians

Octocorallia Haeckel 1866

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Octocorallia (Octocorallians) is a subclass of cnidarians. There are 3744 species of Octocorallians, in 418 genera and 55 families. It includes groups like Soft Corals, Blue Coral And Relatives, and Sea Pens. They are carnivores. They have sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction.

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  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019953
  • Definition: Capable of creating a new organism by combining the genetic material of two gametes, which may come from two parent organisms or from a single organism, in the case of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.
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  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019954
  • Definition: Capable of the biological process in which new individuals are produced by either a single cell or a group of cells, in the absence of any sexual process.
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