Scleractinia, also called stony corals or hard corals, are marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria that build themselves a hard skeleton. The individual...

Madreporaria were formerly applied universally to any stony coral of the family Scleractinia. They reproduce in three separate ways, as discovered by the marine zoologist...

them important coral reef builders like other stony corals in the order Scleractinia. Brain corals are found in shallow warm water coral reefs in all the...

supplement of calcium and alkalinity for reef aquariums. Corals of order Scleractinia build their endoskeletons from aragonite (a polymorph of calcium carbonate)...

western Pacific Ocean Scleractinia Anacropora spp. Briar corals Native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean Scleractinia Ansonia mcgregori Endemic...

skeleton made of calcite that is often fossilized. Like modern corals (Scleractinia), rugose corals were invariably benthic, living on the sea floor or in...

Actiniaria (Sea anemones) Antipatharia Corallimorpharia Rugosa † Scleractinia Zoantharia...

only a subset of coral-associated bacteria. Many corals in the order Scleractinia are hermatypic, meaning that they are involved in building reefs. Most...

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...

of several families within the formally accepted taxon Gorgoniidae (Scleractinia). These can be found in order Malacalcyonacea (taxonomic synonyms of...

Late Cretaceous (100–66 Ma) and Neogene (23 Ma–present), owing to order Scleractinia corals. Not all reefs in the past were formed by corals: those in the...

right. Hexacorallia includes coral reef builders: the stony corals (Scleractinia), sea anemones (Actiniaria), and zoanthids (Zoantharia). Genetic studies...

planci, is a large starfish that preys upon hard, or stony, coral polyps (Scleractinia). The crown-of-thorns starfish receives its name from venomous thorn-like...

into swimming planula larvae. The overwhelming majority of stony coral (Scleractinia) taxa are hermaphroditic in their adult colonies. In these species, there...

Long Island Sound is a large marine estuary in the Northeastern United States. It forms the maritime border between the states of New York and Connecticut...

Corallimorpharia – corallimorpharians aka "false corals" †Rugosa – rugose corals Scleractinia – stony corals †Tabulata – tabular corals Zoantharia – zoanthids Han...

and as the calcareous endoskeleton of warm- and cold-water corals (Scleractinia). Several serpulids have aragonitic tubes. Because the mineral deposition...

Anthemiphylliidae is a family of corals belonging to the order Scleractinia. Genera: Anthemiphyllia Pourtalès, 1878 "Anthemiphylliidae". www.gbif.org....

from the calcareous exoskeletons of marine invertebrates of the order Scleractinia (stony corals). These animals metabolize sugar and oxygen to obtain energy...

(May 2006). "The occurrence of the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia) on oil and gas platforms in the North Sea: Colony growth, recruitment...

made of calcium carbonate is found in subphylum Anthozoa in the order Scleractinia (stony corals; class Hexacorallia) and the class Octocorallia, and in...

are made of calcium carbonate. Additionally, reef-building corals, or Scleractinia, are calcareous organisms that form their rigid skeletal structure through...

February 2015). "Overview of distribution patterns of zooxanthellate Scleractinia". Frontiers in Marine Science. 1. doi:10.3389/fmars.2014.00081. ISSN 2296-7745...

marine cnidarians closely related to stony or reef building corals (Scleractinia). They occur in both temperate and tropical climates, although they are...

The Liquid Jungle Lab (LJL) is a tropical marine research station on the island of Canales de Tierra on the western coast of Pacific Panamá along a primary...

Stenocyathidae is a family of corals belonging to the order Scleractinia. Genera: Pedicellocyathus Cairns, 1995 Stenocyathus Pourtalès, 1871 Truncatoguynia...

officinale), the chambered nautilus (Nautilus pompilius), all stony corals (Scleractinia spp.), and American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius). Appendix III species...

On 29 January 2010, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species identified 149 data deficient species in the Cnidaria phylum (Animalia kingdom). Edwardsia...

Labridae) associated with the mushroom coral Heliofungia actiniformis (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) in the Philippines". Coral Reefs. 31 (1): 133. Bibcode:2012CorRe...

Labridae) associated with the mushroom coralHeliofungia actiniformis (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) in the Philippines". Coral Reefs. 31: 133. Bibcode:2012CorRe...