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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...
- Maasella edwardsi Paramuricea macrospina There are 145 species in the order Scleractinia ****essed as data deficient. Acropora akajimensis Acropora bifurcata Acropora...
- 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...
- 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...
- skeleton made of calcite that is often fossilized. Like modern corals (Scleractinia), rugose corals were invariably benthic, living on the sea floor or in...
- Corallimorphariacorallimorpharians aka "false corals" †Rugosa – rugose corals Scleractiniastony corals †Tabulata – tabular corals Zoanthariazoanthids Han...
- Rugosa † and Tabulata †. Hexacorallia includes coral reef builders (Scleractinia, also called hermatypic stony corals), sea anemones (Actiniaria), and...
- 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...
- of several families within the formally accepted taxon Gorgoniidae (Scleractinia). These can be found in order Malacalcyonacea (taxonomic synonyms of...