Species Profile
Antipatharia
Black corals
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCoelenterata
ClassAnthozoa
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Antipatharia occurs in deep seas.
Sessile and colonial.
Slow-growing coral group.
Size & Structure
01
Tree-like branching colonies
02
Black or dark brown skeleton
03
Spine-covered axis
04
Small polyps
Antipatharia — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- Acoelomate
- Body plan
- Blind sac body plan
- Germ layer
- Diploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Radial
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Incomplete, extracellular and intracellular
- Nervous system
- Nerve net
- Excretory organ
- Absent
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Type-I (absent)
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Diffusion
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Gastrovascular
- Skeleton structure
- Exoskeleton (horny)
- Level of Organisation
- Tissue level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Habitat for deep-sea fauna
Increases structural complexity
Part of deep reef systems
Economic Importance
Used in ornaments
Conservation significance
Deep-sea research importance