Coenothecalia

Coenothecalia

[‚sē·nō·thə′kāl·ē·ə]

(invertebrate zoology)

An order of the class Alcyonaria that forms colonies; lacks spicules but has a skeleton composed of fibrocrystalline argonite.

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