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Milleporina

hydrocoral order
Also known as: fire coral

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skeleton and taxonomy

  • sea anemone
    In cnidarian: Support mechanisms and skeletons

    Hydrocorals, which include the order Milleporina (millepores), commonly called fire coral, and the precious red coral used for jewelry, form encrusting or branching skeletons similar to those of anthozoan corals.

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  • sea anemone
    In cnidarian: Annotated classification

    Order Milleporina Fire coral. Colonial forms producing massive calcareous skeletons. Gastrozooids and dactylozooids project through pores in surface of skeleton. Reduced, acraspedote (lacking a velum) nonfeeding medusae are released. Tropical. Order Siphonophora Pelagic polypoid colonies with greatest degree of polymorphism in phylum; lack medusae.

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