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Hard coral
| Caption: | | Hard coral ---- | | | | Country/Location: | Balicasag Island, Bohol, Philippines | | | | Tags: |
| | | | Notes: | Corals are marine animals that exist as small sea anemone-like polyps, typically in colonies of many identical individuals. The group includes the important reef builders that are found in tropical oceans, which secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.
A coral "head", commonly perceived to be a single organism, is actually formed of thousands of individual but genetically identical polyps, each polyp only a few millimeters in diameter. Over thousands of generations, the polyps lay down a skeleton that is characteristic of their species. A head of coral grows by asexual reproduction of the individual polyps. Corals also breed sexually by spawning, with corals of the same species releasing gametes simultaneously over a period of one to several nights around a full moon. | | | | Camera: | Canon A610 with Underwater Housing WPDC90 (Digital)
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