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Coral (Turbinaria reniformis), parque nacional Ras Muhammad, Egipto, 2022-03-28, DD 132
2022-03-28
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- Museum
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- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Yellow scroll coral (Turbinaria reniformis), Ras Muhammad National Park, Egypt. This species of colonial stony coral is native to the Indo-Pacific region (including the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Indian Ocean and the central Indo-Pacific). This coral, rated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being "vulnerable", has the corallites (skeletal cups in which the polyps sit of 1.5 to 2 mm (0.06 to 0.08 in) in diameter) widely separated and are only on the upper side of the plates. T. reniformis is gonochoristic, with colonies being either male or female. Breeding takes place synchronously with all the colonies in an area liberating their gametes into the sea about a week after the full moon in November.
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