Taxa

Anthozoa

Class

Citation Formats

General Reference

Nature Atlas. "Anthozoa." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/class-anthozoa.

APA Style

Nature Atlas. (n.d.). Anthozoa. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/class-anthozoa

BibTeX

@misc{natureatlas-anthozoa,
  author = {Nature Atlas},
  title = {Anthozoa},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/class-anthozoa},
  note = {Accessed September 8, 2026}
}

Sea anemones and corals: cnidarians that exist only as a polyp, permanently or semi-permanently attached to a surface, with no free-swimming medusa stage at any point in the life cycle. Anthozoa includes the reef-building stony corals whose calcium-carbonate skeletons form the physical structure of coral reefs worldwide.

Facts

Disputed

Member Species/Taxa Count

7500 1

Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.

Taxonomic Rank

Class 1

Scientific Name

Anthozoa 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Child Taxon Of

Cnidaria

Source Catalogue of Life

Sources

1. Catalogue of Life

Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of LifeView the Source

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