- Scleractinia, also
called stony corals or hard
corals, are
marine animals in the
phylum Cnidaria that
build themselves a hard skeleton. The individual...
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includes the
stony corals and
these groups have
polyps that
generally have a 6-fold symmetry.
Octocorallia includes blue
coral and soft
corals and species...
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invertebrates which includes sessile cnidarians such as the sea anemones,
stony corals, soft
corals and sea pens.
Adult anthozoans are
almost all
attached to the...
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Stony coral tissue loss
disease (SCTLD) is a
disease of
corals that
first appeared off the
southeast coast of
Florida in 2014. It
originally was described...
- The
staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) is a branching,
stony coral,
within the
Order Scleractinia. It is
characterized by thick,
upright branches which...
- Deep-water
corals belong to the
Phylum Cnidaria and are most
often stony corals, but also
include black and
thorny corals and soft
corals including the...
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coral reef
builders like
other stony corals in the
order Scleractinia.
Brain corals are
found in
shallow warm
water coral reefs in all the world's oceans...
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Mussidae is a
family of
stony coral in the
order Scleractinia.
Following a
taxonomic revision in 2012, the
family is now
restricted to
species found in...
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Montastraea is a
genus of
colonial stony coral found in the
Caribbean seas. It is the only
genus in the
monotypic family Montastraeidae and
contains a...
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Sphenotrochus ralphae is a
species of
stony coral belonging to the
family Turbinoliidae, It
belongs to the
subgenus Sphenotrochus of the genus, Sphenotrochus...
