octocoral means an anthozoan of the subclass Alcyonaria, having eight-branched tentacles and eight septa. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
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- An anthozoan of the subclass Alcyonaria, having eight-branched tentacles and eight septa.“Dr. Michela Mitchell, a taxonomist at the Queensland Museum Network, said in a statement released by Ocean Census it could be a type of deep-sea coral called octocoral.”