Daisy anemones provided welcome splashes of colour, but the splendid gorgonian corals ruled the fauna. |
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A total of 41 species of zooxanthellate corals were recovered from the unit, including 21 new records. |
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Beautiful table and staghorn corals cover the topside structures offering divers spectacular vistas. |
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Fauna such as anemones, gorgonia and lace corals thrive in the caverns and tunnels of the Turkish Aegean and Mediterranean. |
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There was a gouge three foot across where the anchor had been winched up, ripping corals out with it. |
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Huge boulders covered with a rainbow of corals are back-dropped by dazzling white sand making the colours even more vibrant in contrast. |
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Bioclasts have mixed orientation, but large ammonoids and ramose corals are invariably concordant. |
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The current and clarity of the water have given rise to a dense covering of vibrant soft and hard corals. |
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The corals are inseparable from the matrix of the rocks and generally badly weathered on the exposed surfaces and recrystallized internally. |
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There are seals and porpoises, thick kelp forests, colourful corals, and large wolf fish. |
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So are corals and shellfish, which make calcium carbonates that end up in the bottoms of oceans. |
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Even the rope leading down was covered in barnacles and the wreck itself was festooned in soft corals and shellfish. |
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Taking full advantage of the glut, the flower-like polyps of xenia soft corals pulsated as they fed on the zooplankton delivered by the currents. |
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The local waters offer a wide range of subaquatic wonders including corals, sponges, madrepores, parrot fish and lobsters. |
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What struck me most were the brilliantly-coloured blue tangs, surgeonfish which don't want to be photographed, and the soft corals. |
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The average depth here is 16m, where numerous large, scattered boulders are covered with a reasonable presence of elk and staghorn corals. |
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In between the two islands, black tip sharks were sighted near a healthy patch of staghorn corals. |
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Anchors and anchor chains cause serious damage to reef corals and will uproot sea grasses. |
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The zooxanthellae in these corals are dinoflagellates, and it is suspected that there may be a relationship between their diversifications. |
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It is not known whether rugose corals had symbiotic photosymbiotic zooxanthellae as modern corals do. |
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The plants are tiny single-celled algae, the zooxanthellae or symbiotic dinoflagellates, that live within the tissues of corals in great numbers. |
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New collections from the Tamana Formation in Trinidad contain 41 species of zooxanthellate corals. |
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The specific identity of endosymbiotic dinoflagellates from most zooxanthellate corals is unknown. |
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The schooling fish here are the big attraction but the walls are covered in orange soft corals and large red dahlia anemones. |
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They also collect water samples for the Marine Institute and samples of deepwater corals which are sometimes trawled up by Irish vessels. |
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Herbivores are quite important for the reef because they keep thick mats of filamentous and leafy algae from smothering the corals. |
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Organisms as diverse as phytoplankton, corals, crabs and molluscs lay down limestone or calcium carbonate skeletons. |
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There were dense walls of soft corals, sponges, anemones and hydroids, nudibranchs, creepy-crawlies and lots of fish. |
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The mapepires and corals are generally best left alone and usually all of them hightail it out of an area if you are tromping around. |
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Huge cauliflower soft corals, basket stars and brightly coloured sponges seem to cover almost every centimetre of reef. |
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There is no coral reef as such, but there are plenty of soft corals, sponges, gorgonia and some very colourful sea pens. |
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Anthozoans include sea anemones, a variety of corals, sea fans, and sea pens. |
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Mexico's Caribbean has outstanding reefs teeming with corals and fish life. |
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The wrecks are home to a wide variety of corals and marine life including angelfish, barracudas, margates, sharks, snappers and turtles. |
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Semi-precious stones like turquoise, amethyst, pearls and corals enhanced the look of most creations. |
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Each exquisite creation is studded with semi precious stones like turquoise, amethyst, pearls and corals. |
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Reefs of brilliantly coloured corals and sponges provide shelter for fish, Crustacea, and other animals. |
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Soft corals sway with the current, while schools of striped and spotted groupers, angelfish, batfish and lionfish dart between them. |
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Anemones, bubble corals, soft tree corals, sea cucumbers and cushion stars harboured tiny shrimps and crabs, while seahorses lurked among algae. |
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Other fossils commonly found in the formation include Brachiopods, corals, moss animals, and Crinoids or sea-lilies. |
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Soft corals and gorgonians reach out from the overhanging sides, while shoals of fish swirl in the shade. |
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There are many small creatures to photograph among the soft corals, gorgonians, hard corals and sponges. |
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It has three entrances and is carpeted in colourful sponges and soft corals. |
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Here, steep sloping sides are carpeted with colourful soft corals, table corals, sponges and whip corals. |
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The deep, circular gully is carpeted with soft corals growing from the sandy floor, and sea fans and sea whips adorn the sides. |
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There is also a surprisingly good population of pixie hawkfish skittering between the corals and they all seem to want to pose for the camera. |
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The exhibit is currently home to more than 70 species of fish, invertebrates and corals. |
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Nevertheless the rugose corals remained subsidiary components of reefs relative to tabulate corals and stromatoporoids. |
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The invasion was not limited to brachiopods but also included bryozoans, cephalopods, corals, bivalves, gastropods, trilobites, and crinoids. |
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Jostling for room, sea anemones, corals and sponges vividly span the floor of an ocean forest. |
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Giant gorgonian fans, enormous corals and exaggerated sponges decorated the wall. |
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There's sea water where you could explore starfish and various other corals. |
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At 30m and slightly deeper, a forest of gorgonians and black corals clings to the slope. |
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As he worked on his catalog he dreamed of traveling the world to see living corals on tropical reefs. |
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Like the corals and sponges, many of these fish are long-lived and slow to mature. |
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The other three corals tested produced mucus with a mixture of these types of molecules. |
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The latter case presumably would be the more usual diagenetic history of fossil corals. |
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And organisms such as corals and sea anemones, which simply stay still and grow, have no need of eyes. |
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When it comes to invertebrates and molluscs, corals and sponges, the success rate falls considerably. |
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Since the beginning of the Cenozoic, reefs have become dominated by scleractinian corals and calcareous algae. |
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Elephant ear coral, fan corals and huge barrel sponges all made a fairytale seascape. |
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They were found in association with several other brachiopods as well as corals. |
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This ecoregion is home to nine times as many stony corals as live in the Caribbean Sea and more than twice the number found in the Indian Ocean. |
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Among the rocks, you'll find groups of plumose anemones, Devonshire cup corals, tubeworms and maybe a sea lemon nudibranch. |
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Herbivores are quite important for the reef as they keep thick mats of filamentous and leafy algae from smothering the corals. |
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Below the ocean surface lies an even greater diversity of life, replete with corals, sponges and barnacles, as well as icefish and toothfish. |
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The subdued hues of the soft corals and sponges and the shimmering fish flirting along the reef edge made a stunning spectacle. |
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Joe described water that was impossibly blue, with vibrant corals and countless fish and other marine life. |
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Unlike most other corals, they have no algae living in symbiosis with them, so they must absorb nutrients that pass on the current. |
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Certain corals, for example, build structures with hexagonal symmetry, but not in seafloor sediment. |
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The Phylum Cnidaria includes such diverse forms as jellyfish, hydra, sea anemones, and corals. |
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On the walls are a riot of soft corals, sponges, hydroids and anemones in all shapes and sizes. |
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Some of the considerable biodiversity of corals may come from underwater versions of mules, say researchers. |
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Huge shoals of orange anthias sway in and out of the colourful soft corals while honeycomb moray eels peek out from holes in the coral gap. |
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There was a bommie displaying an intense array of amazing soft corals, smothered with layers of purple and orange fish. |
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Excess nutrients from sewage or fertilizers flow into coastal waters, feeding algae blooms that block sunlight and smother corals. |
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Golden wentletraps are found on dendrophyllid cup corals throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific region from East Africa to the Americas. |
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Other fossil groups include diverse rugose corals, some tabulate corals, nautiloids, gastropods, and trilobites. |
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Most such particles are echinoderm stem ossicles, brachiopods, bryozoans or other corals. |
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In fact the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean harbour an extensive growth of corals which manage to survive. |
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You can enjoy brilliant corals, pristine cays, white sandy beaches and endless marine life. |
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Covered in corals and sponges, it is a colourful environment stacked with sea-horses, young spiny burrfish and cornetfish. |
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The seascape, essentially of hard corals, is sporadically carpeted with colourful soft corals, sea whips, sea fans and leathery soft corals. |
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In addition to this anemone hermit crab, scientists found several potentially new species of corals, sea stars, snails, and clams. |
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A typical marine community consisted of these animals, plus red and green algae, primitive fish, cephalopods, corals, crinoids, and gastropods. |
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Non-symbiotic corals have been an important constituent of reefs since at least the beginning of the Phanerozoic eon. |
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They are covered in encrusting life and soft corals and often surrounded by big pollack and schooling fish. |
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Flowers, corals, and even animal skin contain pigments which give them their colors. |
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Remove the pink corals from the white scallops then wrap strips of smoked salmon round the sides of the scallops. |
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But populations of frogs, butterflies, ocean corals, and polar birds have already gone extinct because of climate change, Parmesan said. |
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Gorgonian corals stood out like crash barriers for the plankton and detritus that course over the hulk. |
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Like wide fans they sit on the branches of white and pink gorgonian corals. |
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They are reef fishes that not only rely on the corals for habitat but also food. |
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Sponges and corals grew on rises in this sea, forming reefs that divided up parts of this sea into isolated lagoons. |
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The reef earns its good reputation with large gorgonian fan corals up to 3m across and cornetfish, groupers and glassfish in abundance. |
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These taxa consist of a broad array of organisms, including foraminifers, corals, bryozoans, mollusks, echinoderms, and fish. |
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A community of cryptobionts that included sphinctozoan sponges, bryozoans, crinoids, brachiopods, and corals occupied resulting crypts. |
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We found many beautiful hard corals and a fair number of soft corals and colorful giant clams. |
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By contrast, the starboard propeller is lying under the hull, away from the light, and is adorned in soft red corals. |
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At Purple Wall, a sheer drop-off adorned in soft corals is a good place to find reef sharks and tuna. |
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Crinoids dominated volumetrically, but other common elements include sponges, brachiopods, bryozoans, gastropods, and corals. |
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This is consistent with certain biotic associations in modern colonial corals. |
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I could finally see all the spectacular fish, corals, and associated animals that I've seen in aquariums and on TV all my life. |
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Ageing brain corals, brittle firecorals and delicate seafans are easily dislodged from their anchorages by the fierce breakers. |
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You won't see the variety of corals found in the Caribbean, but there are healthy reefs covered in vast brain corals, seafans and sea whips. |
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Titan triggerfish are armed with powerful jaws and teeth suitable for chewing bony corals divers should steer clear of them! |
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Other faunal elements include colonial and solitary corals, encrusting bryozoans, stromatoporoids, and rare brachiopods. |
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Boulders are infested with black tree corals, mussels, cowrie shells, soft and hard corals and ascidians. |
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This member contains abundant and diverse mid-Cretaceous shallow-marine invertebrates, including reef corals and rudist bivalves. |
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The calcareous algae, stromatoporoids, tabulate corals, and rugose corals became conspicuous reef-builders throughout the tropical seas. |
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The effect asphyxiated almost all the fish and corals in the reefs fringing a 400-kilometer-long stretch of the Mentawai Islands. |
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Finally I had my chance, with Freddie loitering around the corals below me, gurning for all he was worth. |
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A million years before a mass extinction event, the corals vanish, more or less. |
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The entire fauna is typically shallow-marine, composed of crinoids, brachiopods, corals, and bryozoans. |
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Calculating when this Atlantic lineage originated is difficult, since the results now call into question the identity of many fossilized corals. |
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Once fouled on the reefs, the nets go on fishing, killing sea turtles, fish, seabirds and other wildlife while destroying corals. |
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The corals have increased about fourfold where the fish grazing is still continuing, but there's been no recovery. |
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I couldn't get over the stunning encrustation of the Munchen by soft corals at this depth, suggesting that the tide runs fast and hard over the wreck. |
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On the morning dives we drifted in crystal currents, passing over orange gorgonians and red soft corals, and among schools of goatfish, snappers and surgeonfish. |
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The wreck is dressed in beautiful soft corals of all colours. |
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Rugose corals with solitary form, fasciculate colonial form, simple morphology, and high variability also tended to resist the latest Ordovician extinctions. |
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Entirely encrusted with corals, Mawali is a lively reef, sheltering huge scorpionfish, nudibranchs, sweepers, flower groupers, lionfish and harlequin ghost pipefish. |
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And only in the high seas do we find living organisms that are more than 8,000 years old, such as deep-sea corals. |
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This was typical Red Sea diving, rich with corals and sponges and teeming with fish, one coral head housing a couple of morays that had been there for more than 11 years. |
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On her dives, Louise is likely to catch sight of lobster, starfish and octopus, as well as plants such as sea cucumbers, dead man's fingers and soft and hard corals. |
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Even this close to the shore there are colourful sponges, soft corals, brain corals and boulder corals, forming a playground for goatfish, parrotfish, chromis and wrasse. |
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In fact, the diversity of corals and staggering formations of vast virgin forests and coral heads equal the best to be found anywhere in the world. |
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Colonies may be mistaken for hydroids, corals, or even seaweeds. |
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They tend to be the big head corals, the encrusting ones, but the reefs would lack the postcard species of the plating and staghorn corals in very large areas. |
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The intermediate-level benthos was dominated by sponges, corals, giant bivalves, giant brachiopods, stalked echinoderms and fixed dendroid graptolites. |
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Starfish, sea-urchins, clams and corals lie just yards from the shore. |
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I had never seen such complete encrustation, and by big corals. |
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At this locality, the two stricklandioid species occur mainly in yellowish green, thin-bedded, calcareous mudstone, associated with other brachiopods and rugose corals. |
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These calcified reds can be difficult to distinguish from corals without the assistance of a microscope or a trained eye, as you can see from the picture below at left. |
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Additionally, in the Kendrick corals dolomitic crusts are common on the exteriors of septal flanks and dissepiment surfaces within interseptal spaces. |
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For example, fragmentation in scleractinian corals can reduce fecundity in polyps surrounding the damaged region or even entire coral colonies, by an unknown mechanism. |
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Reef corals adapt to inhabitants both within and without in a most generous and accommodating way, creating and sustaining a rich variety of life. |
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Its territory was used as target test ground of heavy artillery for decades, hundreds of thousands of shells and bombs lie under the paradisiac beaches of Vieques and Culebra among dead corals. |
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As the eggs hatch, the young drift off into the plankton before finally settling on the reef to establish a new colony among another group of cup corals. |
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Soft corals, upside-down fish, barracuda, sweetlips, blue-spotted rays, grouper, lionfish, shrimps and sand-eels have each staked out their own sectarian neighbourhoods. |
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In the eons since those corals were formed, two hours have been added to every day. |
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Though the island is of volcanic origin, corals have encrusted her flanks and over the millennia these have built reefs, growing farther and farther out to sea. |
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Some sponges bore into the shells of bivalves, gastropods, and the colonial skeletons of corals by slowly etching away chips of calcareous material. |
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Aside from its temporary and permanently resident fish, the underside is decorated with sponges, hydroids, tunicates, tube worms, cup corals and anemones. |
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Above, a seastar fish swims amongst a garden of ascidians and soft corals. |
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So I used the last dive of the day to shoot several reef scenes of crinoids sitting among soft corals and gorgonians, and a pair of yellow ghost pipefish. |
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Meanwhile, corals bud on, and both their sexual and asexual activities provide evidence of reproductive success and hybrid forms that continue to puzzle geneticists. |
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Bedding planes in the enclosing limestones do not bend around the nodules, and any brachiopods, corals, or other fossils that are in them have been silicified. |
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We found tiny cowries on the soft corals and red spider crabs on the fans. |
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We were now traversing a great garden of corals, of which the Barrier Reef has 350 different hard varieties and about 60 soft, many of them exotically coloured. |
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These build-ups are made up of bryozoans, bivalves and coralline algae, accompanied by echinoids, brachiopods, barnacles, ahermatypic corals, serpulids and vermetids. |
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Above is a diagram of the septal arrangement in two types of corals. |
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Here are corals that have gone with the flow for 200 million years, and now they're facing the precipitate exodus of their business partners, the zooxanthellae. |
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The main anthozoan subclass, which includes the corals, is the Zoantharia. |
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The chaetetids compose a small group of organisms that was most often presumed to be among the anthozoan corals, more specifically allied to the Tabulata. |
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When Wotton in 1552 gave to anthozoan corals and gorgonians, and hydrozoans the name Zoophyte, it was because of their morphological similarity to higher plants. |
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These reef-building rhodophytes are called coralline algae, because they secrete a hard shell of carbonate around themselves, in much the same way that corals do. |
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Perhaps the deep-sea corals thrive better on the other side of the strait? |
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Soft corals such as the sea fan are both its feeding ground and its food. |
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Cnidarians are incredibly diverse in form, as evidenced by colonial siphonophores, massive medusae and corals, feathery hydroids, and box jellies with complex eyes. |
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There is a low pinnacle at the entrance, together with several table corals where several groups of large batfish and schools of barracuda and jacks cruise in the current. |
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There are mushroom and staghorn corals, tiger cowries and batfish. |
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The effects of 55 years' submersion were apparent from the rusting of plates and fittings and the sponges and soft corals encrusting much of the superstructure. |
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Moray eels, nudibranchs, stingrays, shellfish, sea urchins and sea stars were out and about, while the polyps of black corals and other gorgonians were feeding. |
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At one point, a huge puffer vied for attention with an even bigger hogfish, while an eagle ray dug into the sand beneath an overhang of soft corals. |
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Other marine fossils commonly found throughout the Silurian record include trilobites, graptolites, conodonts, corals, stromatoporoids, and mollusks. |
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This was an impressive scenic dive, with huge yellow clumps of sponge, masses of cup corals with their almost fluorescent colours and featherstars everywhere. |
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But the real price is paid in dead corals, as fewer of the giant gastropods roam the ocean floor, searching for starfish to hoover the insides out of. |
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Warm water corals depend on a vital partnership with unicellular algae of the genus Symbiodinium. |
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They share the ocean with well over a hundred species of jellyfish and a diversity of seaweeds, deep-water corals, and nudibranchs. |
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Some foliaceous corals are unifacial, the polyp mouths being confined to one surface. |
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Use of annual density banding to estimate longevity of infauna of massive corals. |
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The ROV used its arm to collect samples of rocks, mud, corals, and other animals. |
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In the mountains of Parma and Piacenza multitudes of shells and corals with holes may be seen still sticking to the rocks. |
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The gonads of both male and female sea urchins, usually called sea urchin roe or corals, are culinary delicacies in many parts of the world. |
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Japanese demand for sea urchin corals has raised concerns about overfishing. |
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Although larvae are the result of sexual reproduction, corals also reproduce clonally. |
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They attach themselves to bony fish, sharks, marine mammals, and many kinds of invertebrates such as molluscs, tunicates, or corals. |
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The three remaining targets are another roundworm, a hydra from the group of harpoon flingers that includes corals, and a slime mold. |
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In warm, clear tropical waters corals are more abundant than towards the poles where the waters are cold. |
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In order to recover xarifiids from fragments or whole colonies of Scleractinia the corals were treated in the following manner. |
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Underwater, there are communities of kelp, soft corals, sea firs, anemones and sponges. |
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However, there are also extensive shallow shelves, noted for their marine life and corals. |
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Sublittoral corals do not have to deal with as much change as intertidal corals. |
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The sea is the habitat of over 1,000 invertebrate species, and 200 soft and hard corals. |
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Wendy Pyper talks to Dr Carden Wallace about the role of staghorn corals in tracing the history of Indonesia's spectacular marine biodiversity. |
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Delicate branching corals like Acropora were affected much more than robust solid species such as Porites. |
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In addition, trawling can kill corals indirectly by wounding coral tissue, leaving the reefs vulnerable to infection. |
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From corals, to dugongs, Persian Gulf is a diverse cradle for many species who depend on each other for survival. |
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Intense marine heatwaves have destroyed some 400-year-old ancient corals off the Pilbara coastline of Western Australia. |
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Organisms that build this kind of platform are mostly corals, green algae, foraminifers and molluscs. |
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Stromatoporoids, corals and bryozoans became the major contributors to metazoan reefs. |
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The total number of corals and marine fish species was estimated at 500 and 2,400 respectively. |
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However foraminifera and corals are marine organisms, and so reflect the radiocarbon concentration in particular regions of the ocean. |
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Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed. |
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The specially-constructed reef structures will attract natural corals and sponges soon, Vare says, and baitfish. |
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Some solitary corals, such as Cycloseris, were present at the base of the bommie. |
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Monofilament line tangles fish and crabs and also cuts the soft tissue of sponges and corals like the pink sea fan, a UK protected species. |
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Shropshire has a number of areas with Silurian and Ordivician rocks, where a number of shells, corals and trilobites can be found. |
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This led to the extinction of carbonate producers such as brachiopods and corals that relied on dissolved calcite to survive. |
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Loopy kelps, fringed anemones, crenulated sea slugs, and curlicued corals have all been modelled with these methods. |
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Biak is the largest island in its small archipelago, and has many atolls, reefs, and corals. |
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The lithostrotionoid corals are common in bryozoan-echinoderm and ooidal packstones adjacent to ooidal and well-sorted crinoid grainstones. |
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There, seaweeds can outcompete corals and offer few rocky hidey-holesfor reef fishes. |
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Shallow water-dwelling creatures such as giant sea spiders, sea urchins, and corals face new risks as icebergs tear up the ocean floor. |
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Rays, particularly sting rays and eagle rays, can be seen, and when diving around corals, it's possible to spot various moray eels. |
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The benthic fauna of the seamounts is dominated by suspension feeders, including sponges and true corals. |
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The majority of the invertebrates brought up are corals, and are mainly used for the jewelry trade. |
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I think it was too much white and brown, and not enough color on the corals and brittle stars. |
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Some of our most special species include basking sharks, bottle-nosed dolphins, corals and anemones. |
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They imitate underwater life forms such as corals, sponges and nudibranchs. |
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The end result has been a dwindling population of the coral, and as a result a decrease in number of species that rely on the corals for their survival. |
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In one of the first activities, individuals played the roles of coral polyps, zooxanthellae, the algae that feed the corals, and the protective calcium carbonate skeleton. |
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Some SMS sites have low biodiversity, but others are populated by a rich assemblage of species, including tubeworms, clams, snails, shrimp, crabs, and cold-water corals. |
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Atrypoidea and colonial rugose corals Entelophyllum are numerous. |
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There are also many table and brain corals surrounding the island. |
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Interactions between seamounts and underwater currents, as well as their elevated position in the water, attract plankton, corals, fish, and marine mammals alike. |
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It is therefore possible to know the length of day in the past from palaeontological studies of annual and daily growth rings in corals, bivalves, and stromatolite. |
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When researchers fastened toxic seaweed strands to dangle against the corals, two kinds of damselfishes were no help at all, abandoning the troubled sites within 48 hours. |
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They are as crucial an indicator of biological health on the surface of the water, as the corals are to biological health of the gulf in deeper waters. |
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Coral reefs also support a huge community of life, including the corals themselves, their symbiotic zooxanthellae, tropical fish and many other organisms. |
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Although these corals are widespread in many peripheral areas of the North Atlantic, they never reach such amounts and concentrations as at the Norwegian continental slopes. |
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They feed on the corals, sponges, and bryozoans that litter the seabed. |
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He determined that two of the most important and plentiful groups of marine animals 250 million years ago were corals and brachiopods, also called lamp shells. |
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Many cnidarian jellyfish, some corals and comb jellies that are seasonally abundant on Florida coastal waters also light up dark waters, particularly when disturbed. |
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Soft corals, sponges and sea fans may sprout from the bottom, but there are few rock piles, ledges, coral heads or anything else that sticks up very high off the sea floor. |
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Gravels range from pea-size to cobble and contain a variety of fossils including brachiopods, pelmatozoan stems, gastropods, ectoprocts, and corals. |
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In the nongilled mushrooms, the hymenium lines the inner surfaces of the tubes of boletes and polypores, or covers the teeth of spine fungi and the branches of corals. |
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In this area Chris can expect to see marine wildlife such as multi-coloured sea slugs, light bulb sea squirts, sun stars, corals, crustaceans, seals, and diving sea birds. |
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Whether it is corals along our coasts and the fish that make it their home or the Caracals and Tahrs prowling our wadis, the UAE is enriched with a diverse wildlife. |
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Census explorers also found relics of cold-water corals extending over 400km in waters 500m deep in one of the world's longest reefs off Africa's Mauretanian coast. |
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These are parasitic on marine algae or animals, or are saprobes on algae, corals, protozoan cysts, sea grasses, wood and other substrata, and can also be found in sea foam. |
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