Coral Families (Scleractinia)

Coral Families (Scleractinia) is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the families of stony corals, the reef-building corals of the order Scleractinia, such as Acroporidae, the staghorn and table corals. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that the family is a family of stony corals that build a hard skeleton. It excludes the cephalopod families and the spider families, and it excludes soft corals, which have no stony skeleton. The group lets a reader compare the coral families that build tropical reefs.