Stony Corals

Scleractinia Bourne 1900

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/3.0/

Scleractinia (Stony Corals) is an order of cnidarians. There are 3653 species of Stony Corals, in 780 genera and 125 families.

EOL has data for 22 attributes, including:

known marine species
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DescribedAcceptedSpecies
- Definition: number of currently described and taxonomically accepted marine species in this clade (Appeltans et al. 2012. The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity. Current Biology 22, 2189–2202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036)
show all records
1520
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
show all records
Connecticut
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/4831725
show all records
habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
show all records
coral reef
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000049
- Definition: The marine coral reef biome comprises constructional wave-resistant entities which are primarily built by corals and are often cemented together. The growth of these structures is aided by zooxanthellae, algae that are symbiotic with the reef-building corals.
show all records
harvested in
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/harvested_in
- Definition: This organism is caught or collected, and put to human use, in the following region(s)
show all records
Fiji
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/2205218
show all records
net carbon fixation rate
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/net_carbon_fixation_rate
- Definition: net amount or mass of carbon converted from CO2 to organic compounds, per time
show all records
0.996 kg/m^2/year
undescribed marine species present in museum collections
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/UndescribedSpeciesInMuseumCollections
- Definition: "marine species in this clade which are currently represented in specimen collections (estimate) (Appeltans et al. 2012. The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity. Current Biology 22, 2189–2202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036)"
show all records
93
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
show all records
0 m
water temperature
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
- Definition: Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
show all records
-2.028 degrees celsius

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of stony corals. View this species on GBIF

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/3.0/

Stony Coral Habitats

The environments in which many stony corals species are known to live. Select an environment to see its stony corals species checklist.

stony corals Habitats

The environments in which many stony corals species are known to live. Select an environment to see its stony corals species checklist.

Stony Corals

Scleractinia Bourne 1900

Stony Coral Habitats

stony corals Habitats

stony corals includes 125 children: