How To Use Gorgonian In A Sentence
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Moray eels, nudibranchs, stingrays, shellfish, sea urchins and sea stars were out and about, while the polyps of black corals and other gorgonians were feeding.
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Once inside we had the opportunity to gaze out onto the reef past a thick pelmet of black gorgonians and a window box of orange elephant ear sponges.
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On my fourth dive of the week, I rounded an outcrop at about 22m to be greeted by a view of a series of rocky pinnacles covered in gorgonians bathed in the rubescent sunlight of a late-autumn afternoon.
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Sponges make up 70% of their diet with the rest of their diet consisting of gorgonian polyps, other invertebrates, and algae.
Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
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Soft corals such as gorgonians and leather corals belong to the other major coral family Octocoralia.
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This dive is better in the deeper section, where large gorgonian seafans stretch out into the current, surrounded by large numbers of fish, corals, invertebrates, and some huge barrel sponges.
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We passed small shoals of bigeye snapper, masked angelfish and a couple of colourful groupers on our way to a garden of gorgonians.
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Reef gardens are embellished with scarlet and orange staircase sponges and feathery gorgonian fans with their bright yellow branches.
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Small gorgonian fans, yellow feather stars and red soft corals cling to the thick roots.
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When Wotton in 1552 gave to anthozoan corals and gorgonians, and hydrozoans the name Zoophyte, it was because of their morphological similarity to higher plants.
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The other divers seemed magnetically attached to the seabed at around 15m, but I was drawn to the roof of the temple, replete with splendid stands of gorgonian coral, groupers and a pufferfish.
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Because I'm supposed to be studying venoms, peptdies, and antifeedants in gorgonian corals at the moment, and I am finding it rather difficult to concentrate, I ask all of you this burning question:
Coffee. Sigh
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Giant gorgonian fans, enormous corals and exaggerated sponges decorated the wall.
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Like wide fans they sit on the branches of white and pink gorgonian corals.
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It feeds mainly on sponges, but also takes tunicates, algae, zoantharians, gorgonians, hydroids, bryozoans, and seagrasses.
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The red gorgonian, Paragorgia arborea, occurs on these reefs.
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So I used the last dive of the day to shoot several reef scenes of crinoids sitting among soft corals and gorgonians, and a pair of yellow ghost pipefish.
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At 30m and slightly deeper, a forest of gorgonians and black corals clings to the slope.
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So tonight we settled in happily expecting to learn about shark repellents made by the Pacific sole -- a long and fascinating subject if you are a Pacific sole, and rather dull if you're aren't -- only to be energized by the professor's discussion of how he had isolated a particular toxin from a gorgonian those pretty, wavy soft corals that you see in various marine pictures.
Mornings. Grumble
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Soft corals and gorgonians reach out from the overhanging sides, while shoals of fish swirl in the shade.
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The coral and sponge growth was again lush, but with far healthier gorgonian colonies away from the sometimes violent swells of Diamond Rock.
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“Growth and composition of high-Mg calcite in the skeleton of a Bermudian gorgonian Plexaurella dichotoma: Potential for paleothermometry”
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Giant gorgonian fans, enormous corals and exaggerated sponges decorated the wall.
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Antibacterial and antilarval compounds from marine gorgonian-associated bacterium
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Several ‘fingers' of rock, each densely covered in gorgonian fans, projected out into the blue.
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Scrubby bushes of black coral and huge gorgonians reach out towards the sky.
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Astrochele is commonly found clinging to gorgonians, corals, etc.
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The surrounding landscape is a mosaic of blue, white and pink soft corals, punctuated by arresting gorgonians, some exceeding 2m.
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French Angelfish (Pomacanthus paru) forage in a similar manner, but they consume less gorgonian polyps and algae.
Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
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There are many small creatures to photograph among the soft corals, gorgonians, hard corals and sponges.
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On the morning dives we drifted in crystal currents, passing over orange gorgonians and red soft corals, and among schools of goatfish, snappers and surgeonfish.
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This time we dive Shark Point and I cruise round the walls of gorgonians and sponges, then chill out among the endless carpets of green anemones on top of the rock.
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True to the sketch, the site featured big gorgonian-filled overhangs and, inside them and extending out into the channel, great ribbons of jack, trevallies and snappers.
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A potentially-important recent advance is the use of SIMS secondary-ion mass spectrometry on gorgonian corals—which live at all depths, from the poles to the equator.
Pollack and Schrag at the NAS Panel « Climate Audit
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The red gorgonian, Paragorgia arborea, occurs on these reefs.
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The reef earns its good reputation with large gorgonian fan corals up to 3m across and cornetfish, groupers and glassfish in abundance.
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Gorgonian corals stood out like crash barriers for the plankton and detritus that course over the hulk.
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Daisy anemones provided welcome splashes of colour, but the splendid gorgonian corals ruled the fauna.
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I descended a little way off the reef and saw a dazzling concentration of corals, every millimetre covered in table, brain, encrusting and staghorn corals and draped in whip corals and gorgonians.
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On the north west slope of Chevalier Rock is an enormous field of gorgonian seafans in varying shades of orange, all regimentally standing in rows perpendicular to the wall.
