Species Profile
Corallium
Red coral
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCoelenterata
ClassAnthozoa
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Corallium inhabits deep marine waters.
Colonial and sessile.
Economically valuable coral.
Size & Structure
01
Branching colonies
02
Hard red skeleton
03
Small white polyps
04
Tree-like structure
Corallium — 3D Model
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 (calcareous)
- Level of Organisation
- Tissue level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Reef-associated organism
Habitat for marine fauna
Contributes to biodiversity
Economic Importance
Jewellery industry
Trade importance
Conservation relevance