How To Use Stony coral In A Sentence
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This ecoregion is home to nine times as many stony corals as live in the Caribbean Sea and more than twice the number found in the Indian Ocean.
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Softies Leather corals lack the hard calcium carbonate skeleton of stony corals.
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These anthozoans resemble stony corals but lack skeletons.
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Stony coral skeleton of a goblet, the body that surround the Hydra, its composition almost solely for calcium carbonate.
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Another tetrameric stony coral (Lobophyllia hemprichii) fluorescent protein variant, termed EosFP (see Table 2), emits bright green fluorescence that changes to orange-red when illuminated with ultraviolet light at approximately 390 nanometers.
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Oceans Shallow ocean waters (euphotic zone) contain a greater concentration of organisms than the rest of the sea Phytoplankton (algae) is food not only for zooplankton (protozoans and microscopic animals) but also for small fishes Coral reefs - areas of biological abundance just below the surface in shallow, warm, tropical waters Chief constituents are stony corals, animals that have a calcium carbonate (limestone) exoskeleton, and calcareous red and green algae Most of the ocean lies within the pelagic zone Epipelagic zone lacks the inorganic nutrients of shallow waters, and therefore it does not have as high a concentration of phytoplankton Animals in the deeper waters of the mesopelagic zone are carnivores, which are adapted to the absence of light, Waters of the bathypelagic zone are in complete darkness except for an occasional flash of bioluminescent light Abyssal plain - many invertebrates survive there by feeding on debris floating down from the mesopelagic zone
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