{{Short description|Family of corals}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Clavularia crassa (Milne-Edwards, 1848) et sa ponte 1.jpg | image_caption = ''Clavularia crassa'' with eggs | taxon = Clavulariidae | authority = Hickson, 1894 <ref name=WoRMS/> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = {{center|''See text''}} }}
'''Clavulariidae''' is a family of soft corals in the order Malacalcyonacea.<ref name=WoRMS> {{cite taxon|WoRMS|title=Malacalcyonacea |id=1609357 |db=octocorallia|access-date=6 September 2025}} </ref> Colonies in this family consist of separate retractable polyps growing from a horizontal, encrusting stolon or basal membrane. The tissues are stiffened by sclerites.
==Genera== The World Register of Marine Species includes the following genera in the family:<ref name=WoRMS/>
*''Clavularia''<small> Blainville, 1830</small> *''Hanabira''<small> Lau, Stokvis, Imahara & Reimer, 2019</small> *''Knopia''<small> Alderslade & McFadden, 2007</small>
Before a 2022 taxonomic revision of Octocorallia,<ref name=McFadden-2022 >{{cite journal |last1=McFadden |first1=Catherine S. |last2=Van Ofwegen |first2=Leen P. |last3=Quattrini |first3=Andrea M. |title=Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics |journal=Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists |date=2022 |volume=1 |issue=3 |doi=10.18061/bssb.v1i3.8735 |doi-access=free }}</ref> the following genera were also included:<ref name=WoRMS-2015>{{cite WoRMS |author=van Ofwegen, Leen |year=2014 |title=Clavulariidae Hickson, 1894 |id=125270 |accessdate=2015-03-22|db= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402104645/https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125270 |archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref>
*''Azoriella''<small> (Lopez Gonzalez & Gili, 2001)</small> *''Bathytelesto''<small> Bayer, 1981</small> *''Carijoa''<small> F. Mueller, 1867</small> *''Cryptophyton''<small> Williams, 2000</small> *''Cyathopodium''<small> Verrill, 1868</small> *''Denhartogia''<small> Ocaña & van Ofwegen, 2003</small> *''Inconstantia''<small> McFadden & van Ofwegen, 2012</small> *''Incrustatus''<small> van Ofwegen, Häussermann & Försterra, 2007</small> *''Moolabalia''<small> Alderslade, 2001</small> *''Paratelesto''<small> Utinomi, 1958</small> *''Phenganax''<small> Alderslade & McFadden, 2011</small> *''Pseudocladochonus''<small> Versluys, 1907</small> *''Rhodelinda''<small> Bayer, 1981</small> *''Rolandia''<small> de Lacaze-Duthiers, 1900</small> *''Sarcodictyon''<small> Forbes (in Johnston), 1847</small> *''Schizophytum''<small> Studer, 1891</small> *''Scleranthelia''<small> Studer, 1878</small> *''Scyphopodium''<small> Bayer, 1981</small> *''Stereosoma''<small> Hickson, 1930</small> *''Stereotelesto''<small> Bayer, 1981</small> *''Telesto''<small> Lamouroux, 1812</small> *''Telestula''<small> Madsen, 1944</small> *''Tesseranthelia''<small> Bayer, 1981</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Clavulariidae Category:Stolonifera Category:Cnidaria families
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