Coral reefs

Coral reefs

Coral reefs are structures formed from the calcium carbonate secretions of corals. They are colonies of tiny animals in marine areas containing few nutrients.

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Coral reefs

red-band disease

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A disease of corals manifested by a narrow band of filamentous cyanobacteria that advances slowly across the surface of a coral, killing tissue as it progresses. The band is reddish to maroon in ...

operculum

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A lid or flap covering an aperture, such as the gill cover in most bony fishes; the gill cover; also the horny lid closing the aperture of various species of mollusks.

excretion

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A physiological process, originating in cells, that removes waste materials produced by the body.

A snail in the gastropod family Vermetidae. Worm shells are gregarious species forming an intertwining mass of long, white, worm-like tubes, often sunken into a reef substrate. They get their common ...

ionocyte

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A type of cell commonly found in the gills of fishes and some crustaceans. They play a role in regulating the salt concentration of cells in relation to the external environment, and differ greatly ...

reverse transcriptase

Natural environment; Coral reefs

An enzyme that is able to synthesize DNA from information in RNA. It requires an RNA template and a DNA or RNA primer.

grunt

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Any species of bony spiny-rayed fishes in the family Haemulidae. Grunts are medium-sized tropical fishes that are capable of making a grunting sounds by the grinding of pharyngeal teeth.They inhabit ...