Scientists have seen bleached corals on the reefs.
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.
All corals are in the phylum Cnidaria.
Yes, corals are invertebrates, they do not have a spine, central nervous system, head, or internal skeleton which are characteristics of vertebrates.More information:Corals belong to the phlyum Cnidaria, which are invertebrates that include the corals, sea anemones, and jellyfish.
The scientific or taxonomic name would be Gorgonia spp.
A colony of coral is actually many individual pieces of corals living together.
Corals are alive. A single formation is a colony of minuscule polyps, like anemones. They gradually build calcium skeletons around themselves, creating the actual coral we can see.
no. a coral reef is a colony of many smaller coral polyps. corals are their own type of animal, not sponges.
soft corals live deeper water than hard corals because soft corals do not create a hard outer skeleton as the hard corals do.
Corals secrete calcite around their bodies to form reefs. These reefs consist of a compact colony of individual polyps.
Corals are not decomposers. They are consumers.
Corals are plants.
Hermatypic corals contain zooxanthellae (a symbiotic algae), whereas ahermatypic corals do not. It is like saying that hermatypic corals are photosynthetic, where ahermatypic corals are non photosynthetic.
No, corals are not edible.
Yes, corals are composed of an exoskeleton
dynamite fishing and muro ami can destroy corals so if there are less corals, less corals will be produced.
No corals doesn't eat zooxanthellae they only eat zooplankton. Zooxanthallae helps corals to live and keeps corals colourful.They live on the coral polyps.