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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
An order of corals which contains the black and horny corals.
Industry:Natural environment
An order of the subclass Zoantharia (Hexacorallia) of the phylum Cnidaria. They are mostly solitary species (some are colonial) that resemble true corals, but lack a calcareous skeleton.
Industry:Natural environment
A digital airborne multispectral sensor.
Industry:Natural environment
A disease which infects coralline algae.
Industry:Natural environment
A family of fishes (butterfly fish) whose number and behavior may serve as indicators of reef health.
Industry:Natural environment
A form of protective mimicry in which noxious species evolve through convergent evolution to resemble each other.
Industry:Natural environment
A genus of hard (stony) coral that includes the boulder coral and the great star coral.
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A genus of hard (stony) corals that contain the elkhorn and staghorn corals.
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A genus of motile, gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion. Some species in this genus cause cholera in humans and other diseases in other animals, including corals.
Industry:Natural environment
A geologic period covering approximately 23 million years to the present time or ending approximately 2.6 million years ago with the beginning of the Quaternary. The name “Neogene” is a new name for part of the old Tertiary Period and some include the old Quaternary Period.
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