Are corals in animal or plant kingdom?

[Chin_Lee]

Animal or plant? My son asked me this morning and I got confused.... wasnt' sure.

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Cnidaria are animals, belonging to one of four classes:

* Class Anthozoa (anemones, corals, etc.)
* Class Scyphozoa (jellyfish)
* Class Cubozoa (box jellies)
* Class Hydrozoa (Obelia, Aequorea, Portuguese Man o' War, etc.)

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by Der_Iron_Chef

Cnidaria are animals, belonging to one of four classes:

* Class Anthozoa (anemones, corals, etc.)
* Class Scyphozoa (jellyfish)
* Class Cubozoa (box jellies)
* Class Hydrozoa (Obelia, Aequorea, Portuguese Man o' War, etc.)

So Lets take a general hard coral such as a Monti Cap
Here is the tree:
Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Superphylum: Radiata
Phylum: Cnidaria
Classis: Anthozoa
Subclassis: Hexacorallia
Ordo: Scleractinia
Familia: Acroporidae
Genus: Montipora

[Chin_Lee]

thanks guys.