Notes ²

Small, stubby cup coral. Shorter and wider stalk than Cup Coral cf Javania (OTU: CA13) from AOI guide.

Summary ³

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. Although some species are solitary, most are colonial. The founding polyp settles and starts to secrete calcium carbonate to protect its soft body. Solitary corals can be as much as...

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• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Corals of the World
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• World Register of Marine Species

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