Category:Scleractinia

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Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Phylum: Cnidaria • Classis: Anthozoa • Subclassis: Hexacorallia • Ordo: Scleractinia Bourne, 1900

English: Stony star corals · Français : Coraux durs ·

Scleractinia, are exclusively marine animals; they are very similar to sea anemones but generate a hard skeleton. They first appeared in the Middle Triassic and replaced tabulate and rugose corals that went extinct at the end of the Permian.

Subordos (for ITIS): Astrocoeniina, Caryophylliina, Dendrophylliina, Faviina, Fungiina

ITIS link: Scleractinia Bourne, 1900

Subcategories

This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.

C

[+] Caryophylliina (2 C, 1 F)
[+] Cunnolitidae (2 C)

D

[+] Dendrophylliina (1 C)

E

[+] Euphylliidae (2 C)

F

[+] Faviina (7 C, 1 F)
[+] Fungiina (3 C, 1 F)

Media in category "Scleractinia"

The following 11 files are in this category, out of 11 total.

Coral reef locations... 82,904 bytes	Haeckel Hexacoralla ... 2,251,319 bytes	Haeckel Hexacoralla.... 1,918,985 bytes	Hard Corals.jpg 45,957 bytes
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