They trap tiny particles of food as they drift by.
Nothing
The Great Barrier Reef is made up of both hard corals and soft corals. The term 'soft coral' is the name given to the coral group with the scientific name of Alcyonacea. They are different from hard coral polyps, which have multiples of six tentacles, by the fact that the soft coral polyps always have eight tentacles.
Coral is actually not a plant. Corals are colonies made up of tiny animals called polyps. Hard corals have polyps with 6 tentacles, or multiples of 6 tentacles. Soft coral polyps have 8 tentacles. Ten species of corals are Favia, Goniopora, Hydnophora, Echinophyllia, Tubinaria, Acropora, Staghorn, Brain, Fan, and Elkhorn. Ten plants that are found in coral reefs are Halophila ovalis, Halodule uninervis, Zostera capricorni, Trichodesmium, coralline algae, Sargassum, Turbinaria, Sea lettuce (Ulva), sea grapes (Caulerpa) and turtle grass (Chlorodesmis).
Yes, Coral Polyps are herbivores.
Where do polyps live
The hard coral polyps phylum name is Cnidaria.
Polyps create calcium carbonate exoskeletons, forming the architecture of coral reefs. These exoskeletons accumulate and combine over time to create the familiar solid structures of coral reefs that we see in the ocean.
Coral polyps are animals, not plants.
coral polyps and sea plants
No, a free swimming form of a cnidarian is called a medusa. Polyps are typically attached to a substrate and have a cylindrical body with a mouth surrounded by tentacles at one end. Medusae have a bell-shaped body with tentacles hanging down.
A coral
Algae