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What is the purpose of polyps tentacles?
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What is the soft part of the Great Barrier Reef made of?
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.
What are ten coral reef plants?
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).
Are coral polyps herbivores?
Yes, Coral Polyps are herbivores.
What is a coral polyps habitat?
Where do polyps live
What is the hard coral polyps phylum name?
The hard coral polyps phylum name is Cnidaria.
What is made by tiny tube shape animals called polyps?
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.
Is a free swimming form of a cnidarian called a polyp?
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.
Is coral an ocean plant?
Coral polyps are animals, not plants.
What producers that are in the coral reef?
coral polyps and sea plants
How does the coral reef defend itself from predators?
It protects itself by stinging fish that come near it . Its tentacles have stinging cells.Clown fish, and some damsel fish,live in a symbiotic relationship with the anemone and do not sting them
What is a coral poly?
A coral polyp is an individual coral cell, and when polyps stick together, they form coral a.k.a. Coral Polyp Colonies. Later, when the polyps die, their skeleton (which is like a hard shell) Strengthens the coral formation.
