The collection of marine invertebrate’s representatives of class Anthozoa present in the Zoological Museum, since 1952, lacked faunstic studies as well as species of the Scleractinian present in Geological Museums of the University of Karachi. The present work is a comprehensive checklist of subclasses Octocorallia and Hexacorallia, order Scleractinia of the class Anthozoa belonging to the Phylum Cnidaria. The present checklist contains 8 families and belongs to the subclass octocorallia and 13 families belonging to the subclass Hexacorallia in the order Scleractinia. The specimens were identified through fauna of British India and pertinent literature.
Abid Raza Zaidi, Rukhsana Perveen. (2013) CHECKLIST OF HARD AND SOFT CORALS PRESENT IN THE ZOOLOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL MUSEUMS, UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI, , Volume 10, Issue 2.
