Scleractinia

several species of Scleractinia

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Anthozoa
Classis: Hexacorallia
Ordo: Scleractinia
Subordines: †Archaeocoeniina – †Archaeofungiina – Astrocoeniina – Caryophylliina – Dendrophylliina – †Distichophylliina – Faviina – Fungiina – †Microsolenina – †Pachythecalina – †Stylina – †Stylophylliina – Vacatina

Unplaced familiae (5): †Aulastraeoporidae – †Calamophylliidae – †Cyathophoridae – Pachyphylliidae – †Rhipidogyridae – †Solenocoeniidae

Name

Scleractinia Bourne, 1900: 1, 56, 61 (as "Scleractiniae")

Synonymy

• Madreporaria

References

Primary references

• Bourne, G.C. 1900. Chap. 6. The Anthozoa. In: Lankester E.R. (ed.), A Treatise on Zoology. Part II. The Porifera and Coelenterata. London, Adam & Charles Black. Pp. 1–84. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Altuna, Á. 2013. Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from ECOMARG 2003, 2008 and 2009 expeditions to bathyal waters off north and northwest Spain (northeast Atlantic). Zootaxa 3641(2): 101–128. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.2.1 Reference page. 
• Altuna, Á. 2017. Deep-water scleractinian corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from 2010-2011 INDEMARES expeditions to the Galicia Bank (Spain, northeast Atlantic). Zootaxa 4353(2): 257–293. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.2. Reference page. 
• Baron-Szabo, R.C. 2018. Scleractinian corals from the upper Berriasian of central Europe and comparison with contemporaneous coral assemblages. Zootaxa 4383(1): 1–98. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4383.1.1 Reference page. 
• Baron-Szabo, R.C. 2021. Upper Barremian–lower Aptian scleractinian corals of central Europe (Schrattenkalk Fm., Helvetic Zone, Austria, Germany, Switzerland). Zootaxa 4960(1): 1–199. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4960.1.1 Reference page. 
• Cairns, S.D. 1999: Species richness of Recent Scleractinia. Atoll Research Bulletin No. 459. 46 pp.
• Cairns, S.D. & Baron-Szabo, R.C. 2021. A brief review of the stony coral (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) papers published by Zootaxa in its first 20 years. Pp 212–214 In Zhang, Z-Q., ed. Advancing global taxonomy: the first twenty years of Zootaxa. Zootaxa 4979(1): 1–239. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4979.1.1 Reference page.  Zootaxa 4979(1): 212–214. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4979.1.19 full article pdf Reference page. 
• Cairns, S.D. & Kitahara, M.V. 2012. An illustrated key to the genera and subgenera of the Recent azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), with an attached glossary. ZooKeys 227: 1–47. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.227.3612 . Reference page. 
• Cairns, S.D. & Polonio, V. 2013. New records of deep-water Scleractinia off Argentina and the Falkland Islands. Zootaxa 3691(1): 58–86. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3691.1.2 Reference page. 
• Fautin, D.G. and J.M. Lowenstein. 1993: Phylogenetic relationships among scleractinians, actinians, and corallimorpharians (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). Proceedings of the 7th International Coral Reef Symposium, 2 :665-670.
• Kitahara, M.V. , Cairns, S.D. , Stolarski, J. & Miller, D.J., 2013: Deltocyathiidae, an early-diverging family of Robust corals (Anthozoa, Scleractinia). Zoologica Scripta, 42 (2): 201–212 DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00575.x
• Lee, J.N., Abd Adzis, K.A., Afiq-Rosli, L., Tanzil, J.T.I., Chan, A.A., Ismail, Mn N., Akmal, K.F. & Affendi, Y.A. 2022. Scleractinian coral (Cnidaria, Hexacorallia, Scleractinia) diversity of the Mersing Islands, Peninsular Malaysia. ZooKeys 1102ː 177–190. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1102.82228 Reference page. 
• Montgomery, A.D., Fenner, D. & Toonen, R.J. 2019. Annotated checklist for stony corals of American Sāmoa with reference to mesophotic depth records. ZooKeys 849: 1–170. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.849.34763 . Reference page. 
• Romano, S.L. and S.R. Palumbi. 1996: Evolution of scleractinian corals inferred from molecular systematics. Science, 271: 640–642.
• Samiei, J.V., Dab, K., Ghezellou, P. & Shirvani, A. 2013. Some scleractinian corals (Scleractinia: Anthozoa) of Larak Island, Persian Gulf. Zootaxa 3636(1): 101–143. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3636.1.5 Reference page. 
• Veron, J.E.N. 1995: Corals in Space and Time: The Biogeography and Evolution of the Scleractinia. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney. 321 pages.
• Veron, J. 2013. Overview of the taxonomy of zooxanthellate Scleractinia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169(3): 485–508. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12076 Reference page. 
• Veron, J.E.N. 2015. The potential of type species to destabilise the taxonomy of zooxanthellate Scleractinia. Zootaxa 4048(3): 433–435. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4048.3.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

Links

• Scleractinia – Taxon details on Paleobiology Database.
• Scleractinia in the World Register of Marine Species

Vernacular names

• Deutsch: Steinkorallen
• Ελληνικά: Σκληρακτίνια
• English: Stony corals
• Nordfriisk: Stiankoralen
• français: Scléractiniaires
• magyar: Kőkorallok
• 日本語: 石珊瑚目

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