It is nonetheless a beautiful shallow reef with huge areas of elk and staghorn coral sheltering shoals of grunt, snapper and goatfish. |
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But remarkably, the new coral takes only a few years to establish itself on the heaps of ruined staghorn coral. |
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I pick up a piece of coral with delicate branches, the Acropora or staghorn coral. |
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Beautiful table and staghorn corals cover the topside structures offering divers spectacular vistas. |
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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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Fields of staghorn coral are parted only for bushels of anemone and host clownfish. |
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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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Some inquisitive groupers swam out to meet us from among staghorn coral that was over 20 feet tall. |
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Staghorn coral rises above a tangled matrix of numerous other hard coral species, punctuated by great domes of brain coral. |
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There are mushroom and staghorn corals, tiger cowries and batfish. |
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A squirrelfish peeks out from staghorn coral near Sand Key, Florida. |
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A good hunting knife traditionally has scales made of staghorn. |
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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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Dominating the scene is table upon table of staghorn coral, acropora, and we're not talking tiny coffee tables but tables big enough for a dinner party. |
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Again I lose track of the number of turtles resting on the reef, my film gone by the time I find one lying on a patch of staghorn coral, as though sleeping on a bed of nails. |
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They are affected by coral bleaching, they're affected by crown-of-thorn starfish, and a lot of things that make coral reefs sick makes the staghorn coral sick first. |
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Snorkelers and SCUBA divers come from all over the globe to see the park's colorful reefs and species like endangered staghorn coral. |
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Mote Marine's coral nursery trees hold fragments of staghorn coral that hang like Christmas ornaments from monofilament fishing line. |
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Those species will join more than 1,000 staghorn coral raised in Mote's offshore nursery by a team led by another Staff Scientist, Erich Bartels. |
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All fin fish by catch except herring, Pacific staghorn sculpin, shiner surfperch, surf smelt, topsmelt and anchovies must be released. |
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Outpatient bilateral supracostal tubeless percutaneous nephrolithotomy for staghorn calculi. |
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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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Staghorn ferns, with their antlerlike leaves, are really curios of ferndom and never fail to gain attention. |
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In Monterey Bay, prey included octopus, market squid, Pacific whiting, spotted cusk-eel, rockfish, plainfin midshipman, white croaker, Pacific sanddab, and staghorn sculpin. |
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We were heartened to see some staghorn coral, which the camp director said was recently taking hold after cooler waters arrived to the reefs following a hurricane. |
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Staghorn sumac is so named for MO reasons, both related to male deer. |
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