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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The chitinous outer coat of common tissue connecting individuals in some colonial hydrozoans.
Industry:Natural environment
The mechanical process of gradually breaking down a hard layer.
Industry:Natural environment
The simultaneous shedding of gametes by a large number of individuals.
Industry:Natural environment
A bit-mapped digital image graphics file format suitable for efficiently importing image data into computer files or for transmitting or displaying the formatted image on a computer monitor or printing it out. GIF supports color and various resolutions. It also includes data compression, making it especially effective for scanned photos.
Industry:Natural environment
A disease of corals manifested by a narrow band of filamentous cyanobacteria that advances slowly across the surface of a coral, killing tissue as it progresses. The band is reddish to maroon in color.
Industry:Natural environment
A lid or flap covering an aperture, such as the gill cover in most bony fishes; the gill cover; also the horny lid closing the aperture of various species of mollusks.
Industry:Natural environment
A physiological process, originating in cells, that removes waste materials produced by the body.
Industry:Natural environment
A snail in the gastropod family Vermetidae. Worm shells are gregarious species forming an intertwining mass of long, white, worm-like tubes, often sunken into a reef substrate. They get their common name of "worm shell" because their shells superficially resemble the shells of some tube-building marine polychaete worms. After a short motile existance, they cement their shell to a hard substrate, and as they grow, the shells may coil or meander over the substrate producing a tube that looks quite like a tube worm. Worm shells are filter-feeders which spin a mucus net to trap floating food particles, such as plankton.
Industry:Natural environment
