- 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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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...
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species of
colonial stony coral in the
family Euphylliidae,
commonly known as
octopus coral,
fluorescence gr****
coral, and
galaxy coral among various vernacular...
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invertebrates and
invertebrates of
brackish water, such as sea anemones,
stony corals, soft
corals and sea pens.
Almost all
adult anthozoans are
attached to the...
- The
staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) is a branching,
stony coral,
within the
Order Scleractinia. It is
characterized by thick,
upright branches which...
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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...
- (Gr**** eu-, true; Gr**** phyllon, leaf) are
known as a
family of
polyped stony corals under the
order Scleractinia. This
family consists of
multiple genera...
- A
corallite is the
skeletal cup,
formed by an
individual stony coral polyp, in
which the
polyp sits and into
which it can retract. The cup is composed...
- 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...
