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

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

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

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

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)...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

of survival into the Palaeocene. Approximately 60% of late-Cretaceous Scleractinia coral genera failed to cross the K–Pg boundary into the Paleocene. Further...

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

Labridae) associated with the mushroom coralHeliofungia actiniformis (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) in the Philippines". Coral Reefs. 31: 133. doi:10.1007/s00338-011-0834-3...

freshwater or marine invertebrate or protozoan. Reef-building corals (Scleractinia), like many other cnidarians (e.g. jellyfish, anemones), host endosymbiotic...

between the framework builders. The corals which build reefs today, the Scleractinia, arose after the Permian–Triassic extinction event that wiped out the...

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

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