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Coral reefs
Coral reefs are structures formed from the calcium carbonate secretions of corals. They are colonies of tiny animals in marine areas containing few nutrients.
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Coral reefs
Conger eel
Natural environment; Coral reefs
Any species of eel in the family Congridae. Conger eels have a thick cylindrical body and tapering snout. They possess a smooth and scaleless skin and large pectoral fins. They are much less common ...
Feather star
Natural environment; Coral reefs
Feather stars are echinoderms in the class Crinoidea. The juveniles attach to the substrate by a stalk with rootlike branches. The mouth side faces upward. In the adult stage they break away from the ...
Sea pansy
Natural environment; Coral reefs
A soft coral in the order Pennatulacea and subclass Alcyonaria. A sea pansy is a colony of polyps having different forms and functions. A single, leaf-like, giant primary polyp up to two inches in ...
Melanin
Natural environment; Coral reefs
A pigment in the skin of animals which determines skin and coat color. It is found in two chemically different forms: eumelanin (which produces brown and black) and phaeomelanin (which produces ...
Near infrared
Natural environment; Coral reefs
Electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths from just longer than the visible (about 0.7 micrometers) to about two micrometers.
Obligatory
Natural environment; Coral reefs
Obligate or required. For example, an obligatory cleaner fish relies entirely on this feeding mode to obtain nutrients; opposite of facultative.
Sagittal
Natural environment; Coral reefs
Relating to the sagittal plane, which extends through the midline of a bilateral animal, dividing it into two equal halves.
