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Muricella Aruensis
''Muricella'' is a genus of corals belonging to the family Acanthogorgiidae. The species of this genus are found in Pacific and Indian Ocean, Caribbean The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America .... Species Species: *'' Muricella abnormalis'' *'' Muricella argentea'' *'' Muricella aruensis'' References Octocorallia genera Acanthogorgiidae {{octocorallia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corals
Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the subphylum Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact Colony (biology), colonies of many identical individual polyp (zoology), polyps. Coral species include the important Coral reef, reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton. A coral "group" is a colony of very many cloning, genetically identical polyps. Each polyp is a sac-like animal typically only a few millimeters in diameter and a few centimeters in height. A set of tentacles surround a central mouth opening. Each polyp excretes an exoskeleton near the base. Over many generations, the colony thus creates a skeleton characteristic of the species which can measure up to several meters in size. Individual colonies grow by asexual reproduction of polyps. Corals also breed sexually by spawning: polyps of the same species release gametes simultaneously overnight, often around a full moon. Fertilized eggs form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acanthogorgiidae
Acanthogorgiidae is a family of cnidarians belonging to the order Alcyonacea Alcyonacea is the old scientific order name for the informal group known as "soft corals". It is now an unaccepted name for class Octocorallia. It became deprecated . The following text should be considered a historical, outdated way of treatin .... Genera: * '' Acanthogorgia'' Gray, 1857 * '' Anthogorgia'' Verrill, 1868 * '' Ascolepis'' * '' Calcigorgia'' Broch, 1935 * '' Calicogorgia'' Thomson & Henderson, 1906 * '' Callicigorgia'' * '' Cyclomuricea'' Nutting, 1908 * '' Muricella'' Verrill, 1868 * '' Versluysia'' Nutting, 1910 References Holaxonia Cnidarian families {{octocorallia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caribbean
The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America to the west, and South America to the south, it comprises numerous List of Caribbean islands, islands, cays, islets, reefs, and banks. It includes the Lucayan Archipelago, Greater Antilles, and Lesser Antilles of the West Indies; the Quintana Roo Municipalities of Quintana Roo#Municipalities, islands and Districts of Belize#List, Belizean List of islands of Belize, islands of the Yucatán Peninsula; and the Bay Islands Department#Islands, Bay Islands, Miskito Cays, Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina, Corn Islands, and San Blas Islands of Central America. It also includes the coastal areas on the Mainland, continental mainland of the Americas bordering the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muricella Abnormalis
''Muricella'' is a genus of corals belonging to the family Acanthogorgiidae. The species of this genus are found in Pacific and Indian Ocean, Caribbean The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America .... Species Species: *'' Muricella abnormalis'' *'' Muricella argentea'' *'' Muricella aruensis'' References Octocorallia genera Acanthogorgiidae {{octocorallia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muricella Argentea
''Muricella'' is a genus of corals belonging to the family Acanthogorgiidae. The species of this genus are found in Pacific and Indian Ocean, Caribbean. Species Species: *''Muricella abnormalis ''Muricella'' is a genus of corals belonging to the family Acanthogorgiidae. The species of this genus are found in Pacific and Indian Ocean, Caribbean The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the ...'' *'' Muricella argentea'' *'' Muricella aruensis'' References Octocorallia genera Acanthogorgiidae {{octocorallia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muricella Aruensis
''Muricella'' is a genus of corals belonging to the family Acanthogorgiidae. The species of this genus are found in Pacific and Indian Ocean, Caribbean The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America .... Species Species: *'' Muricella abnormalis'' *'' Muricella argentea'' *'' Muricella aruensis'' References Octocorallia genera Acanthogorgiidae {{octocorallia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octocorallia Genera
Octocorallia, along with Hexacorallia, is one of the two extant classes of Anthozoa. It comprises over 3,000 species of marine and brackish animals consisting of colonial polyps with 8-fold symmetry, commonly referred informally as "soft corals". It was previously known by the now unaccepted scientific names Alcyonacea and Gorgonacea, both deprecated , and by the also deprecated name of Alcyonaria, in earlier times. Its only two orders are Malacalcyonacea and Scleralcyonacea, which include corals such as those under the common names of blue corals, sea pens, and gorgonians (sea fans and sea whips). These animals have an internal skeleton secreted by their mesoglea, and polyps with tipically eight tentacles and eight mesenteries. As is the case with all cnidarians, their complex life cycle includes a motile, planktonic phase (a larva called planula), and a later characteristic sessile phase. Octocorals have existed at least since the Ordovician period, as shown b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
