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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

been considered similar to various types of coral, including the order scleractinia, which have a stony skeleton, the anthozoa group of cnidarians, and janaria...

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

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...

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

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...

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

(Cribrinopsis crassa) Clavularia crassa There are 290 species in the order Scleractinia assessed as least concern. Tooth coral (Balanophyllia europaea) Heteropsammia...

Plerogyridae is a family of cnidarians belonging to the order Scleractinia. Genera: Blastomussa Wells, 1968 Nemenzophyllia Hodgson & Ross, 1982 Physogyra...

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

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

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

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

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...

to genus: molecular phylogeny of Euphyllia and Fimbriaphyllia (order Scleractinia; family Euphyllidae; clade V)". PeerJ. 5: e4074. doi:10.7717/peerj.4074...

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

massive skeleton. This skeleton is formed of aragonite, similar to that of scleractinia. Individual polyps live in tubes within the skeleton and are connected...

Maasella edwardsi Paramuricea macrospina There are 145 species in the order Scleractinia assessed as data deficient. Acropora akajimensis Acropora bifurcata Acropora...

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...

"Rhombopsammia, a New Genus of the Family Micrabaciidae (Coelenterata: Scleractinia)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 99 (2): 248–256...

through suspension feeding. C. manuelensis is also a part of the order Scleractinia and therefore is a stony coral species, which simply means they have...

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

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