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Heliopora is a genus of cnidarian in the family Helioporidae. [1] The genus consists of reef building corals, and is ancient and highly conserved. [ 2 ] The species heliopora coerulea is also known as "blue coral".
Blue coral (Heliopora coerulea) is a species of colonial coral. It is the only octocoral known to produce a massive skeleton. [3] This skeleton is formed of aragonite, similar to that of scleractinia. Individual polyps live in tubes within the skeleton and are connected by a thin layer of tissue over the outside of the skeleton.
The blue coral (Heliopora coerulea), the only extant species in the family Helioporidae, is most common in shallow water of the tropical Pacific [6] and Indo-Pacific reefs. [7] It has no spicules , and is the only octocoral known to produce a massive skeleton formed of fibrocrystalline aragonite fused into lamellae , similar to that of the ...
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Diploastrea heliopora, commonly known as diploastrea brain coral [3] or honeycomb coral [4] among other vernacular names, is a species of hard coral in the family Diploastreidae. It is the only extant species in its genus.
Diploastrea is the only genus of corals in its monotypic family, Diploastreidae, containing the extant Diploastrea heliopora (Lamarck, 1816) and the extinct Diploastrea polygonalis (Martin, 1880). References
Heliopora coerulea: Octocorals with a massive skeleton composed of aragonite secreted by underside of coenosarc. Zooxanthellate. [10] Heliopora coerulea is IndoPacific; other species are from the Atlantic and Madagascar. [11] Octocorallia: Pennatulacea Sea pens, sea feathers and sea pansies: Ptilosarcus gurneyi
The results of Job and Ceccarelli's 2010 survey [20] were published as the Tuvalu Marine Life Scientific Report in 2012. [21] showed that the mean hard coral cover of Funafuti, Nanumea and Nukulaelae were 15%, 11% and 6%, respectively. with Funafuti having a higher mean coral cover, which was attributed to better water flow through the large reef passes (ava) and greater habitat diversity due ...