Soft corals and sea fans : a comprehensive guide to the tropical shallow water genera of the central-west Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea / by Katharina Fabricius and Philip Alderslade
- Bib ID:
- 2635766
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Fabricius, Katharina, 1964-
- Description:
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- Townsville, Qld. : Australian Institute of Marine Science, 2001
- viii, 264 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps, ports ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0642322104 (paperback)
- Summary:
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This book is a guide to families and genera of soft corals and sea fans from the shallow, tropical and subtropical regions of the Indian and Central-West Pacific oceans and the Red Sea. Soft corals and sea fans are common names for species of animals grouped under the scientific name Alcyonacea. Together with blue coral and sea pens, they make up a larger animal group called Octocorallia (Box 1). Their distinguishing characteristic is that their polyps always bear eight tentacles (hence octo-coral), which are fringed by one or more rows of pinnules along both edges. The popular term "soft coral" points to the fact that most soft corals, in contrast to the related hard corals, have no massive solid skeleton.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 2001.
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