AMNH Dry Coral Collection
List of AMNH Dry Coral Collection
Class Anthozoa - cnidarians with only a polyp phase (no medusa); consists of soft & hard corals, sea fans, sea anemones & allies. Both colonial and solitary, often building great reefs in tropical and deep-sea waters.
Subclass Hexacorallia - Stony corals, black corals, sea anemonies in broad sense, & tube anemones. Often colonial & reef forming corals with six or fewer axes in symmetry body-part structures.
Order Scleractinia - stony/hard corals
Families
Acroporidae
Agariciidae
Astrocoeniidae
Caryophylliidae
Deltocyathidae
Dendrophylliidae
Euphylliidae
Faviidae
Flabellidae
Fungiidae
Lobophylliidae
Meandrinidae
Merulinidae
Montastraeidae
Mussidae
Oculinidae
Pocilloporidae
Poritidae
Psammocoridae
Rhizangiidae
Scleractinia incertae sedis
Siderastreidae
Stenocyathidae
Trochosmiliidae
Subclass Octocorallia - Soft corals, gorgonians, sea pens & blue coral. Colonial with 8 pinnate tentacles, and without skeletal axis or with a skeletal axis made of protein and/or calcite.
Order Alcyonacea - soft corals
Families
Ellisellidae
Isididae
Primnoidae
Gorgoniidae
Plexauridae
Briareidae
Melithaeidae
Tubiporidae
Order Helioporacea - with massive calcified skeletons of crystalline aragonite, simliar to Scleractinia
Families
Helioporidae