Scleractinians
From coraldigest
Scleractinian/Stony Corals
- Introduction
- Classification
- Kingdom:Animalia
- Phylum: Cnidaria
- Class:Anthozoa
- Stony Corals are also called Hard Corals, they are the 'reef builders' of the coral ecosystem
- Classification
- Evolutionary History
- Characteristics
- Skeleton
- Colony Formation
- Reproduction
- Sexual
- Asexual
- Budding
- Splitting
- Environment
Class Photos from the US/British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean
References
- Atoda, Dr. Kenji and Pandolfi, Dr. John M. “Scleractinia.” AccessScience. McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Web. 26 Feb. 2014.