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Scleractinia 
AphiaID: 1363

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor: included in ERMS 1.1
Rank Order
Parent Hexacorallia
Sources  basis of record: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Daly, M., M.R. Brugler, P. Cartwright, A.G. Collins, M.N. Dawson, D.G. Fautin, S.C. France, C.S. McFadden, D.M. Opresko, E. Rodriquez, S.L. Romano, J.L. Stake. (2007). The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. Zootaxa (1668): 127-182, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01668p182.pdf [details] [full text]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch steenkoralen  [details]
English stony corals  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Family Acroporidae
Family Agariciidae
Family Anthemiphylliidae
Family Astrocoeniidae
Family Caryophylliidae
Family Dendrophylliidae
Family Euphyllidae
Family Faviidae
Family Flabellidae
Family Fungiacyathidae
Family Fungiidae
Family Gardineriidae
Family Guyniidae
Family Meandrinidae
Family Merulinidae
Family Micrabaciidae
Family Mussidae
Family Oculinidae
Family Pectiniidae
Family Pocilloporidae
Family Poritidae
Family Rhizangiidae
Family Scleractinia incertae sedis
Family Siderastreidae
Family Trachyphylliidae
Family Trochosmiliidae
Family Turbinoliidae
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
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  Citation: WoRMS (2010). Scleractinia. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1363 on 2010-07-30
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