Given their common name of soft corals, one would likely assume that octocorals are well… soft. However, as is common in biology, there are always exceptions to rules. Within the Octocorallia, there are a few species that form aragonite-based skeletons, most of which belong to the family Helioporidae. Helioporids are enigmatic octocorals from the order … Continue reading Heliopora are Not-So-Soft, Soft Corals