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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Madrepora (category Scleractinia genera)
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...
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Actiniaria (Sea anemones) Antipatharia Corallimorpharia Rugosa † Scleractinia Zoantharia...
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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...
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Long Island Sound is a large marine estuary in the Northeastern United States. It forms the maritime border between New York's Long Island and Connecticut...
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supplement of calcium and alkalinity for reef aquariums. Corals of order Scleractinia build their endoskeletons from aragonite (a polymorph of calcium carbonate)...
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only a subset of coral-associated bacteria. Many corals in the order Scleractinia are hermatypic, meaning that they are involved in building reefs. Most...
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western Pacific Ocean Scleractinia Anacropora spp. Briar corals Native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean Scleractinia Ansonia mcgregori Endemic...
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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...
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right. Hexacorallia includes coral reef builders: the stony corals (Scleractinia), sea anemones (Actiniaria), and zoanthids (Zoantharia). Genetic studies...
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Liquid Jungle Lab (section Reef Building Corals (Scleractinia) of the Gulf of Chiriqui including Bahia Honda to Coiba Island marine zones)
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...
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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...
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into swimming planula larvae. The overwhelming majority of stony coral (Scleractinia) taxa are hermaphroditic in their adult colonies. In these species, there...
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from the calcareous exoskeletons of marine invertebrates of the order Scleractinia (stony corals). These animals metabolize sugar and oxygen to obtain energy...
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and as the calcareous endoskeleton of warm- and cold-water corals (Scleractinia). Several serpulids have aragonitic tubes. Because the mineral deposition...
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Brain coral (category Scleractinia)
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...
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made of calcium carbonate is found in subphylum Anthozoa in the order Scleractinia (stony corals; class Hexacorallia) and the class Octocorallia, and in...
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are made of calcium carbonate. Additionally, reef-building corals, or Scleractinia, are calcareous organisms that form their rigid skeletal structure through...
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Murray (2006). "The occurrence of the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia) on oil and gas platforms in the North Sea: colony growth, recruitment...
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of several families within the formally accepted taxon Gorgoniidae (Scleractinia). These can be found in order Malacalcyonacea (taxonomic synonyms of...
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(Cribrinopsis crassa) Clavularia crassa There are 290 species in the order Scleractinia assessed as least concern. Tooth coral (Balanophyllia europaea) Heteropsammia...
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Thamnoseris (category Scleractinia)
Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Cnidaria Class: Hexacorallia Order: Scleractinia Family: †Latomeandridae Genus: †Thamnoseris Fromentel, 1861...
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"PART-III Cnidaria (Gk. cnidos, stinging nettle) reproduction and growth of Scleractinia". Field Excursion to Milne Bay Province – Papua New Guinea Working Group:...
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Corallimorpharia – corallimorpharians aka "false corals" †Rugosa – rugose corals Scleractinia – stony corals †Tabulata – tabular corals Zoantharia – zoanthids Han...
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Plerogyridae is a family of cnidarians belonging to the order Scleractinia. Genera: Blastomussa Wells, 1968 Nemenzophyllia Hodgson & Ross, 1982 Physogyra...
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Diploria (category Scleractinia genera)
ecology of a common Caribbean brain coral, Diploria labyrinthiformis (Scleractinia: Faviinae)" (PDF). Coral Reefs. 36 (1): 83–94. doi:10.1007/s00338-016-1504-2...
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Labridae) associated with the mushroom coralHeliofungia actiniformis (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) in the Philippines". Coral Reefs. 31: 133. Bibcode:2012CorRe...
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Anthemiphylliidae (category Scleractinia)
Anthemiphylliidae is a family of corals belonging to the order Scleractinia. Genera: Anthemiphyllia Pourtalès, 1878 "Anthemiphylliidae". www.gbif.org....
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"Aquarium observations on the deep-water coral Lophelia pertusa (L., 1758) (scleractinia) and selected associated invertebrates". Ophelia. 54 (2): 83–104. doi:10...
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Euphyllia baliensis (category Scleractinia stubs)
Erdmann, M. (2012). "Euphyllia baliensis sp. nov. (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia: Euphylliidae): A new species of reef coral from Indonesia". Zootaxa...
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