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What is the difference between soft coral and stony coral?
Stony corals are made out of calcium carbonate, usually don't have pores and are in anthrozoan (stationary) colonies, soft corals are porous, "fleshy", and flexible.
What is an agariciid?
An agariciid is any member of the Agariciidae, a family of reef-building stony corals.
What do dog face puffer fish eat?
It eats sponges and stony corals these two foods are their favorite.
Coral reefs are made of?
Coral reefs are calcium carbonate. They are built from stony corals, which consist of polyps that cluster in groups.
What are 4 type of corals?
Hard corals (Scleractinia) - reef-building corals that create calcium carbonate skeletons. Soft corals (Alcyonacea) - lack stony skeletons and have a flexible, fleshy appearance. Brain corals (Family: Mussidae) - named for their distinctive brain-like appearance. Staghorn corals (Genus: Acropora) - characterized by their branching, antler-like growth forms.
What is a corals shelter?
Some species use the rocks crevices and overhangs. Some will retreat into a stony structure they build themselves. Some use fish, other crustaceans and sand.
Are sea coral producers decomposers or consumers?
Corals are both producers (they have symbiotic plants living in them) and consumers (herbivores/carnivores) as they filter feed on plankton.
How do stony coral build coral reefs?
When coral animals die their skeletons remain. More corals build on top of them, gradually forming a coral reef
What is the classification of coral?
Corals are classified as members of the phylum Cnidaria, which includes other animals such as jellyfish and sea anemones. Within the phylum Cnidaria, corals belong to the class Anthozoa. They are further divided into two subclasses: Hexacorallia (includes stony corals) and Octocorallia (includes soft corals).
What is the Scientific name for coral?
http://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/006/english/hyakka/doubutu/sangorui/index.html Use that link to figure out which type of coral you need! If you just want the general name, though, use Cnidarians
What category are a jellyfish sponge and coral in?
First off, all three types of organims are in the kingdom Animalia, and are not plants, they are animals. Jellyfish and Coral are both in the phylum cnidaria; jellyfish are further divided into class Medusozoa, which has a number of its own subgroups, whereas corals are in the class Anthozoa, which again is subdivided into a number of its own groups, but the what are usually considered corals are mostly in the groups Scleractinia(stony corals) and Octocorallia(soft corals, gorgonians, etc). The sponges on the otherhand are in a completely different phylum, Porifera, which is further divided into many different groups, and is not closely related to the Cnidarians.
What kind of soil does coral need to grow?
The coral reefs are mostly able to grow in clay like material that keeps the coral stable. They just need sand for certain corals and other grow on solid rock surfaces. It just depends if the coral is a Small polyp stoney corals or a large polyp stony or some other kind of soft coral.
