Summary[edit] Description: English: Planula larva being released from Harbor Porites coral colony. Date: 24 September 2016, 17:31:34. Source: Own work. Author: Narrissa P Spies. Kewalo Marine Lab Licensing[edit] : This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. :. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 truetrue.
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Description: Porites porites furcata Lamarck, 1816 (a.k.a. Porites furcata) - branched finger 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. The pale lavender-colored crusts are calcareous red algae - probably Porolithon pachydermum. Classification: Animalia, Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia, Poritidae Locality: patch reef south of French Bay government dock, southwestern San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas. Date: 15 March 2013, 13:13. Source: Porites porites furcata (branched finger coral) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 16. Author: James St. John.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Small colony of Porites porites, French Bay, San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Taken 21 June 1999. Date: 9 April 2010 (original upload date). Source: Own workTransferred from en.wikipedia. Author: Jstuby at en.wikipedia.
Description: Porites astreoides Lamarck, 1816 - mustard hill 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. Porites astreoides is a stony coral having a yellowish to greenish-yellow or gray color, with irregularly-shaped & irregularly-sized pustules covered by coral polyps. Colonies form subspherical to subhemispherical masses, or irregularly encrusting mats. The pale lavender crusts are Porolithon pachydermum calcareous red algae ("reef cement"). The large, closely-spaced holes in portions of the Porolithon crusts are borings produced by Choneplax lata chitons (malacos.chez.com/htm/C08G2.HTM). Classification: Animalia, Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia, Poritidae Locality: patch reef south in western French Bay, southwestern San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas. Date: 21 March 2011, 15:04. Source: Porites astreoides (mustard hill coral) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 6. Author: James St. John.