Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Hexacorallia

Scleractinia

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Astrocoeniidae Koby, 1890
Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846
Deltocyathidae Kitahara, Cairns, Stolarski & Miller, 2012
Dendrophylliidae Gray, 1847
Euphylliidae Alloiteau, 1952
Flabellidae Bourne, 1905
Fungiacyathidae Chavalier, 1987
Guyniidae Hickson, 1910
Meandrinidae Gray, 1847
Oculinidae Gray, 1847
Pocilloporidae Gray, 1842
Rhizangiidae d'Orbigny, 1851
Schizocyathidae Stolarski, 2000
Scleractinia incertae sedis
Stenocyathidae Stolarski, 2000
Turbinoliidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: steenkoralen sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: hard corals; stony corals

English-United States: stony corals sources: Charles Hussey

German: Steinkorallen sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Σκληρακτίνια sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: sclerattinia sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: akmeniniai koralai sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: steinkoraller sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: korale rafowe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: жесткие (мадрепоровые) кораллы sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: kamene korale sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: mercanlar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Склерактинії; Склерактінії

Literature

basis of record	Vaughan, T.W. & Wells, J.W. 1943. Revision of the suborders, families and genera of the Scleractinia. Special Papers of the Geological Society of America 44: 1–363.
additional source	Chevalier, J.P. & Beauvais, L. 1987. Ordre des Scleractiniaires, p. 403-764. In: Grasse PP (ed.), Traite de Zoologie, Cnidaires, Anthozoaires. Masson, Paris.
additional source	Wells, J.W. 1956. Scleractinia. In: Moore RC (ed) Treatise on invertebrate paleontology F. Coelenterata. Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press, pp. 328–440.
identification resource	Vaughan, T.W. & Wells, J.W. 1943. Revision of the suborders, families and genera of the Scleractinia. Special Papers of the Geological Society of America 44: 1–363.

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Citation

Cairns, S. (2014). Scleractinia. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1363