Talk:Alcyonacea

Is it possible that you got the suborders wrong? For instance, Stlonifera is not a suborder of Alcyonacea but an order of Alcyonaria. Cheers, Albert Kok (Holland)

For instance, this sentence just does not make any sense:

Related orders in the subclass Octocorallia include Sea pens, Sea fans, Sea whips, bamboo coral and xenias.

Xenia and bamboo coral are in the order Alcyonacea. --Dr DBW (talk) 03:13, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

I came here to make that exact same point, particularly since sea pens and sea fans redirect to Gorgonians. I don't know enough to fix it, though I think it's just plain wrong, so I'm going to delete the sentence. AdventurousMe (talk) 06:29, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

I don't think the proposed merger with Gorgonians would be correct since A) that is a common name and B) Gorgonians do no comprise the entirety of organisms in Alcyonacea / Octocorallia Stichodactyla (talk) 14:45, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

There doesn't seem to be any followup or rational for merging with Alcyonarian. On Octocorallia it suggests that Alcyonarian is a synonym. Anyone able to straighten this up? I suggest putting any proposal on Talk:Octocorallia bondolo (talk) 05:06, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

With regard to the proposed merger between Alcyonacea and Alcyonarian, I think it would be preferable to rename Alcyonarian to Margaretia dorus, the fossil coral that is the subject of the stub article. I would propose removing the first two sentences in the process. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:50, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Done. bondolo (talk) 07:26, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Please see the gorgonian article and comment on the merge request on its talk page.--Khajidha (talk) 15:11, 11 September 2017 (UTC)