Summary[edit] Description: Español: Cycloseris distorta de unos 15 mm de ancho, en isla Lizard, Coconut Beach, a 22 m de profundidadEnglish: Cycloseris distorta about 15 mm wide. At Lizard Island, off Coconut Beach at 22 metres depth. Date: 17 January 2015, 11:48:14. Source: http://lifg.australianmuseum.net.au/HotShot.html?resourceId=GQYTrpGh. Author: Anne Hoggett.
Description: Acropora palmata (Lamarck, 1816) - elkhorn coral on a patch reef. Stony corals have a patchy distribution in the shallow marine waters surrounding San Salvador Island. They occur as isolated individual colonies, in patch reefs, fringing reefs, and barrier reefs. Stony corals are scleractinian anthozoan cnidarians (there are also non-scleractinian stony corals in the fossil record, such as tabulates and rugosans). They consist of individuals or colonies of gelatinous polyps that secrete hard skeletons of aragonite (CaCO3). Most scleractinian corals live in warm, tropical to subtropical, photic zone environments (the shallow portions of the world’s oceans where sunlight penetrates). Microbes (Symbiodinium - Protista, Dinoflagellata/Pyrrhophyta) called zooxanthellae live in their tissues and need to be in sunlight to make their own food (photosynthesis), which is shared with the host coral animal. Scleractinian corals have stinging cells (nematocysts) in their tentacles that paralyze prey. Classification: Animalia, Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia, Acroporidae Locality: patch reef in western French Bay, southwestern San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas. Date: 23 March 2011, 15:51. Source: Acropora palmata (elkhorn coral) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 2. Author: James St. John.
Zarinah Waheed, Francesca Benzoni, Sancia E. T. van der Meij, Tullia Isotta Terraneo, Bert W. Hoeksema
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Summary[edit] Description: Español: Pleuractis gravis en Pulau Layang-Layang, islas Spratly, 2013. Date: 2013. Source: https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=5901&display_type=list&element_type=8 Waheed Z, Benzoni F, van der Meij SET, Terraneo TI, Hoeksema BW (2015) Scleractinian corals (Fungiidae, Agariciidae and Euphylliidae) of Pulau Layang-Layang, Spratly Islands, with a note on Pavona maldivensis (Gardiner, 1905). ZooKeys 517: 1-37. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.517.9308. Author: Zarinah Waheed, Francesca Benzoni, Sancia E. T. van der Meij, Tullia Isotta Terraneo, Bert W. Hoeksema.
Description: English: A worm in a recess of a lophelia pertusa bush. North Atlantic. Date: 20 December 2010, 11:44. Source: NOAA Photo Library: expl2341. Author: Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition, NOAA/OER.
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Summary[edit] Description: Taxonomic Name : Fungia Common Name : Accession Number : Ma78668 Part of the Marine collection For more details visit www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections Images released under a CC-BY licence. Auckland Museum 2019. Date: 27 February 2019, 12:48. Source: Fungia. Author: Auckland Museum Collections from Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Exhibit in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Via Brigata Liguria, 9, 16121, Genoa, Italy. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. Date: 26 September 2013, 07:21:58. Source: Own work. Author: Daderot.