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Scleractinia, also
called stony corals or hard corals, are
marine animals in the
phylum Cnidaria that
build themselves a hard skeleton. The individual...
- m****ive skeleton. This
skeleton is
formed of aragonite,
similar to that of
scleractinia.
Individual polyps live in
tubes within the
skeleton and are connected...
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Maasella edwardsi Paramuricea macrospina There are 145
species in the
order Scleractinia ****essed as data deficient.
Acropora akajimensis Acropora bifurcata Acropora...
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Pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) is a hard
coral (order
Scleractinia)
found in the
western Atlantic Ocean and the
Caribbean Sea. It is the only species...
- On 29
January 2010, the IUCN Red List of
Threatened Species identified 149 data
deficient species in the
Cnidaria phylum (Animalia kingdom). Edwardsia...
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Corallimorpharia –
corallimorpharians aka "false corals" †Rugosa –
rugose corals Scleractinia –
stony corals †Tabulata –
tabular corals Zoantharia –
zoanthids Han...
- of
several families within the
formally accepted taxon Gorgoniidae (
Scleractinia).
These can be
found in
order Malacalcyonacea (taxonomic
synonyms of...
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Rugosa † and
Tabulata †.
Hexacorallia includes coral reef
builders (
Scleractinia, also
called hermatypic stony corals), sea
anemones (Actiniaria), and...
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skeleton made of
calcite that is
often fossilized. Like
modern corals (
Scleractinia),
rugose corals were
invariably benthic,
living on the sea
floor or in...
- planci, is a
large starfish that
preys upon hard, or stony,
coral polyps (
Scleractinia). The crown-of-thorns
starfish receives its name from
venomous thornlike...
