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The contents of the Gorgonian page were merged into Alcyonacea on 16 March 2019. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

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) reply

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) reply

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) reply

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) reply

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) reply

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

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