Stony Corals
34 entries in the Stony Corals compendium.
ScleractiniaStony corals are marine animals that build hard skeletons and form reefs.AcroporidaeStaghorn corals are the dominant group of reef builders.AgariciidaeA family of reef-building stony corals with symbiotic algae.AstrocoeniidaeA family of stony corals found worldwide in tropical and subtropical oceans.Blastomussa merletiA large polyp stony coral native to the Indo-Pacific region.Blastomussa wellsiA brightly colored, near-threatened coral of uncertain family.Brain coralSpheroid stony corals with brain-like grooves, found worldwide.CaryophylliidaeStony corals from tropics to temperate seas and deep water.Cladocora caespitosaStony coral forming the Mediterranean's only true coral reef.Corals of the World (website)Open access reference for stony coral taxonomy and identification.EuphylliidaeA family of stony corals with bubble-like tentacles, popular in aquariums.FungiidaeMushroom corals that can change sex and move as adults.LobophylliidaeFamily of Indo-Pacific large polyp stony corals.MerulinidaeColonial reef-building corals with highly fused skeletons.MontastraeaMonotypic Caribbean coral genus with one species, great star coral.MontastraeidaeMonotypic family of Caribbean stony coral, the great star coral.MussidaeAtlantic stony corals, many called brain corals, vulnerable to climate change.PectiniidaeFormer family of chalice corals, now abolished.PocilloporidaeColonial reef-building corals of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.Stephanocoenia interseptaA Near Threatened stony coral of the tropical western Atlantic.AnacroporaFragile branching corals of muddy, non-reef waters.AnomastraeaA monotypic coral genus forming mound-like colonies.AstroidesMonotypic cup coral endemic to the western Mediterranean Sea.BalanophylliaA genus of solitary stony corals with two subgenera.ColpophylliaMonotypic genus of boulder brain coral, a Caribbean reef builder.CtenellaMonotypic stony coral endemic to the Chagos Archipelago.CycloserisSolitary disc corals of the Indo-Pacific, tolerant of turbid waters.DactylotrochusMonotypic deep-sea coral genus from the Red Sea and western Pacific.DendrogyraMonotypic genus of pillar coral, critically endangered in the Atlantic.DendrophylliaA genus of deep-sea azooxanthellate stony cup corals.DesmophyllumA cosmopolitan genus of solitary, deepwater stony corals.DichocoeniaA monotypic stony coral with irregular corallites and variable form.DiploriaMonotypic genus of massive reef-building stony coral.DuncanopsammiaA monotypic genus of large-polyp stony coral from Australia and the South China Sea.
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