Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Cnidaria (phylum)
8. Anthozoa (class)
9. Alcyonaria (subclass)
10. Alcyonacea (order)
11. Coralliidae (family)

Narrower term/s

• Corallium rubrum (species)

Anotations

Scope note:

Genus of corals having separate male and female colonies, and from the few reports of reproduction, it is believed that fertilization is internal, and therefore depends on free-swimming sperm from male colonies reaching the polyps of female colonies.