''Astrangia'' is a

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stony corals Scleractinia, also called stony corals or hard corals, are marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria that build themselves a hard skeleton. The individual animals are known as polyps and have a cylindrical body crowned by an oral disc in which a mo ...

in the

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Rhizangiidae. Members of this genus are non-reef building corals and are found in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans. They are solitary corals with large polyps and are found in clumps. They reproduce from

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s. The

corallite A corallite is the skeletal cup, formed by an individual stony coral polyp, in which the polyp sits and into which it can retract. The cup is composed of aragonite, a crystalline form of calcium carbonate, and is secreted by the polyp. Corallit ...

s are small with simple toothed

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Species

The

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includes the following

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in the genus: *'' Astrangia atrata'' (Dennant, 1906) *'' Astrangia browni'' Palmer, 1928 *'' Astrangia californica'' Durham & Barnard, 1952 *'' Astrangia conferta'' Verrill, 1870 *'' Astrangia costata'' Verrill, 1866 *'' Astrangia dentata'' Verrill, 1866 *'' Astrangia equatorialis'' Durham & Barnard, 1952 *'' Astrangia haimei'' Verrill, 1866 *'' Astrangia howardi'' Durham & Barnard, 1952 *'' Astrangia macrodentata'' Thiel, 1940 *'' Astrangia mercatoris'' Thiel, 1941 *''

Astrangia poculata ''Astrangia poculata'', the northern star coral or northern cup coral, is a species of non-reefbuilding Scleractinia, stony coral in the Family (biology), family Rhizangiidae. It is native to shallow water in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Ca ...

'' (Ellis & Solander, 1786) *'' Astrangia rathbuni'' Vaughan, 1906 *'' Astrangia solitaria'' (Lesueur, 1817) *'' Astrangia woodsi'' Wells, 1955

References

Rhizangiidae Scleractinia genera {{scleractinia-stub