Stony Corals
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Order | Scleractinia; Bourne, 1900 |
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Scientific name | Scleractinia |
Class | Anthozoa |
Kingdom | Animalia |
Rank | Order |
Higher classification | Hexacorallia |
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ID | 2399080 |
About Stony Corals
Scleractinia, also called stony corals or hard corals, are marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria that build themselves a hard skeleton. The individual animals are known as polyps and have a cylindrical body crowned by an oral disc in which a mouth is fringed with tentacles.