Giant Gorgonian Sea Fan Soft Coral. Branching Gorgonia Corals. Invertebrate Marine Animals Alcyonacea Cnidaria Octocorals. Tropical coral reef life under the Andaman Sea. Indo-Pacific Ocean seabed. ID: 244313285
. Bleached corals can recover and regain their symbionts if the heat stress is not too intense or too prolonged (Grottoli et al.2006). In addition, symbiont shuffling during elevated temperature from sensitive to more thermotolerant symbionts allowed some corals to recover even during a heat stres...
nested into 11 molecular clades, and two families, eight genera and 11 species of shrimps, grouped within 12 lineages. Crabs of the speciesTrapezia tigrinawere found to be exclusively associated withPocilloporacorals, whileTetraliacrabs and the shrimpsJocaste japonicaandHarpilius lutescensonly occurred ...
The densely branched P. meandrina also known as Cauliflower coral, is generally found in the Indo and eastern Pacific and grows in strong flow conditions. In contrast, there is relatively more space between the branches of P. eydouxi, which is found in the frontal reef area. The size of ...