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- Scleractinia abstract "Scleractinia, also called stony corals or hard corals, are marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria that live on the seabed and build themselves a hard skeleton. The individual animals are known as polyps and have a cylindrical body crowned by an oral disc with a mouth and a fringe of tentacles. Although some species are solitary, most are colonial. The founding polyp settles on the seabed and starts to secrete calcium carbonate to protect its soft body. Solitary corals can be as much as 25 cm (10 in) across but in colonial species the polyps are usually only a few millimetres in diameter. These polyps reproduce by budding but remain attached to each other, forming a multi-polyp colony with a common skeleton, which may be up to several metres in diameter or height according to species.The shape and appearance of each coral colony depends not only on the species, but also on its location, depth, the amount of water movement and other factors. Many shallow-water corals contain symbiont unicellular organisms known as zooxanthellae within their tissues. These give their colour to the coral which thus may vary in hue depending on what species of symbiont it contains. Stony corals are closely related to sea anemones, and like them are armed with stinging cells known as cnidocytes. Corals reproduce both sexually and asexually. Most species release gametes into the sea where fertilisation takes place, and the planula larvae drift as part of the plankton, but a few species brood their eggs. Asexual reproduction is mostly by fragmentation, when part of a colony becomes detached and reattaches elsewhere.Stony corals occur in all the world's oceans. Hermatypic corals are mostly colonial and form part of reef structures; most of these are zooxanthellate and are found in the shallow waters into which sunlight penetrates. Other corals may be solitary or colonial and do not form reefs; some of these occur at abyssal depths where no light reaches. Stony corals first appeared in the Middle Triassic, but their relationship to the tabulate and rugose corals of the Paleozoic is currently unresolved. Much of the framework of modern coral reefs is formed by scleractinians. Stony corals numbers are expected to decline due to the effects of global warming and ocean acidification.".
- Scleractinia thumbnail Haeckel_Hexacoralla.jpg?width=300.
- Scleractinia wikiPageExternalLink tree?group=zoantharia.
- Scleractinia wikiPageID "904556".
- Scleractinia wikiPageLength "30541".
- Scleractinia wikiPageOutDegree "165".
- Scleractinia wikiPageRevisionID "696341439".
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Abyssal_zone.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Acropora.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Acropora_acuminata.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Acroporidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Agariciidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Algae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Anthemiphylliidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Anthozoa.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Aragonite.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Asexual_reproduction.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Astrangia.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Astrocoeniidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Budding.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Calcite.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Calcium_carbonate.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Caribbean.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Caryophylliidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Extant_Middle_Triassic_first_appearances.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Scleractinia.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Cilium.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Cladistics.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Cladocora.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Cnidaria.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Cnidocyte.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Coelosimilia.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Coenosarc.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Colony_(biology).
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Common_descent.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Convergent_evolution.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Coral.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Corallimorpharia.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Corallite.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Coscinaraeidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous–Paleogene_extinction_event.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Ctenactis_echinata.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink DNA_sequencing.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Deltocyathidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Dendrophylliidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Dinoflagellate.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Diploastreidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Effects_of_global_warming.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Endodermis.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Environmental_issues_with_coral_reefs.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Epidermis_(zoology).
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Ernst_Haeckel.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Euphyllidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Family.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Family_(biology).
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Fertilisation.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink File:Brain_coral.jpg.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Flabellidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Fossil.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Fragmentation_(reproduction).
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Francis_Grant_Ogilvie.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Fungiacyathidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Fungiidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Gamete.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Gardineriidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Gastrovascular_cavity.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Genus.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Gonad.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Guyniidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Henri_Milne-Edwards.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Hermaphrodite.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Hermatypic_coral.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Invertebrate.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink John_Veron.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink John_West_Wells.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Jules_Haime.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Jurassic.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Lobophylliidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Madracis.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Meandrinidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Medusa.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Merulinidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Mesentery.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Mesentery_(zoology).
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Mesoglea.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Metamorphosis.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Micrabaciidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Middle_Triassic.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Mitochondrion.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Monophyly.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Montastraeidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Montlivaltiidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Mucus.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Mussidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Ocean_acidification.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Oculina.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Oculinidae.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Orbicella_annularis.
- Scleractinia wikiPageWikiLink Organic_compound.