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Heliocoenia (Octoheliocoenia)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae

Taxonomy
Octoheliocoenia was named as a genus. It is not extant.

It was reranked as Heliocoenia (Octoheliocoenia) by Kiessling (2008).

It was assigned to Scleractinia by Sepkoski (2002); and to Heliocoenia by Kiessling (2008).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Octoheliocoenia Sepkoski
2008Heliocoenia (Octoheliocoenia) Kiessling

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
Hexacorallia()
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
RankNameAuthor
suborderStylininaAlloiteau 1952
familyStylinidaed'Orbigny 1851
subfamilyStylininaed'Orbigny 1851
genusHeliocoeniaEtallon 1859
subgenusOctoheliocoenia

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available