These families of relatively drab soft corals lack the eye-catching colours but have an interesting variety of growth forms.
Like the Nephtheidae and Viguieriotidae families, these soft corals do not produce hard calcium carbonate skeletons. Instead they contain small skeletal elements called sclerites which provide some degree of support.
Differing from other similar softies in having polyps that can contract, but cannot fully retract into a calyx.
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Differentiated from the Sclerophytum Soft Corals by the presence of specialised polyps known as siphonozoids.
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This is where most of the Sinularia soft corals were placed after the 2022 reshuffle....
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The Sinularia Corals now contain only the original type species, Sinularia brassica. The rest have been moved to Sclerophytum.
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Phangan Marine Life
