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.