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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A polyp in hydrozoans and other colonial cnidarians which is specialized for feeding.
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A specialized sensory nerve ending that monitors internal changes in the body brought about by movement and muscular activity. Proprioceptors are located in muscles, tendons, and joint capsules and when stimulated, transmit information concerning movements and position of the body; also called "proprioreceptor".
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A type of stalk that lies in contact with the substrate; in corals, a horizontal polyp outgrowth from which daughter polyps are budded.
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An important coral reef parameter that describes the amount of "wrinkling" or roughness of the reef profile. It is an index of substrate complexity. Areas of high complexity are likely to provide more cover for reef fishes and more places of attachment for algae, corals and various sessile invertebrates.
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Asexual reproduction, such as budding or fragmentation, and therefore does not involve a recombination of genetic material.
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Gases that can be dissociated by solar radiation, which release chlorine, which in turn destroys ozone.
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In taxonomy, a name which does not meet all mandatory provisions of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and thus has no status in nomenclature. Unavailable names include: nomen oblitum, nomen negatum, nomen nudum, nomen nullum, nomen vetitum.
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One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals; vertical radially arranged plates forming one or more cycles between the septa and the central axis in the scleractinian skeleton .
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The degree of resolution at which ecological processes, structures, and changes across space and time are observed and measured.
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The organ-pipe coral, Tubipora musica, is a reef-building (hermatypic) octocoral .
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