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knobby porous coral
Porites astreoides Lamarck, 1816 - mustard hill coral on a patch reef. Stony corals have a patchy distribution in the shallow marine waters surrounding San Salvador Island. They occur as isolated individual colonies, in patch reefs, fringing reefs, and barrier reefs. Stony corals are scleractinian anthozoan cnidarians (there are also non-scleractinian stony corals in the fossil record, such as tabulates and rugosans). They consist of individuals or colonies of gelatinous polyps that secrete hard skeletons of aragonite (CaCO3). Most scleractinian corals live in warm, tropical to subtropical, photic zone environments (the shallow portions of the world’s oceans where sunlight penetrates). Microbes (Symbiodinium - Protista, Dinoflagellata/Pyrrhophyta) called zooxanthellae live in their tissues and need to be in sunlight to make their own food (photosynthesis), which is shared with the host coral animal. Scleractinian corals have stinging cells (nematocysts) in their tentacles that paralyze prey. Porites astreoides is a stony coral having a yellowish to greenish-yellow or gray color, with irregularly-shaped & irregularly-sized pustules covered by coral polyps. Colonies form subspherical to subhemispherical masses, or irregularly encrusting mats. The brownish-colored corals at center and bottom are Montastraea star corals. Classification: Animalia, Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia, Poritidae Locality: patch reef south of French Bay government dock, southwestern San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas Autore: James St. John Crediti: Porites astreoides (mustard hill coral) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 7 Licenza: CC BY 2.0 Immagine visualizzata senza modifiche sostanziali. Apri la pagina originale su Wikimedia Commons · categoria verificata tramite Wikidata

Porites astreoides

knobby porous coral
Lamarck, 1816
Specie Accettata Specie marina
FamigliaPoritidae
GenerePorites
TassonomiaWoRMSClassificazione collegata alla scheda ufficiale.

Descrizione della specie da Wikipedia in inglese descrizione completa

Porites astreoides, commonly known as mustard hill coral or yellow porites, is a colonial species of stony coral in the family Poritidae. It is a common species in the Caribbean Sea and western tropical Atlantic Ocean in North, Central, and South America; and the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean in western Africa.

Description When it grows in fast-flowing, shallow water, Porites astreoides is encrusting but in calmer water at medium depths it is a massive coral with a smooth, mounded, semi-spherical form and can grow to 60 centimetres (24 in) in diameter. At greater depths it is usually plate-like and in caves and under overhangs the plates are angled to receive the maximum amount of light. It is the only species within the genus Porites not to have a finger-like form. The corallites are small and tightly-packed and give the coral a porous appearance. The polyps each have six tentacles and are generally retracted during the day. This coral is yellow, yellowish-green, pale grey or pale brown, a colour given to it by the dinoflagellate zooxanthellae, microscopic algae that live symbiotically within the coral's tissue.

Porites astreoides is found growing in shallow water on reefs in the Caribbean Sea and in the western-central and southwestern Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean region and tropical North America, Central America, and South America; and the eastern-central Atlantic Ocean in tropical western Africa. It is a common species on all parts of a reef and in lagoons.
Fonte del testo: Wikipedia EN. Testo disponibile con licenza CC BY-SA 4.0. Estratto selezionato fino a dieci frasi; formattazione e lunghezza adattate per questa scheda. Gli autori sono indicati nella cronologia della pagina. La voce inglese è utilizzata perché non è disponibile un testo italiano verificato per questo nome scientifico.

Classificazione

Superdomain Biota
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Cnidaria
Subphylum Anthozoa
Class Hexacorallia
Order Scleractinia
Suborder Refertina
Family Poritidae
Genus Porites
Species Porites astreoides
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Dimensioni corporee

Description When it grows in fast-flowing, shallow water, Porites astreoides is encrusting but in calmer water at medium depths it is a massive coral with a smooth, mounded, semi-spherical form and can grow to 60 centimetres (24 in) in diameter.

Fonte: Wikipedia EN · CC BY-SA 4.0 · autori
Habitat e profondità

At greater depths it is usually plate-like and in caves and under overhangs the plates are angled to receive the maximum amount of light.

Fonte: Wikipedia EN · CC BY-SA 4.0 · autori
Colorazione e livrea

This coral is yellow, yellowish-green, pale grey or pale brown, a colour given to it by the dinoflagellate zooxanthellae, microscopic algae that live symbiotically within the coral's tissue.

Fonte: Wikipedia EN · CC BY-SA 4.0 · autori
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Documentazione ufficiale e citazione dell’Atlante: DOI generale: 10.5281/zenodo.21902190 · versione 1.0: 10.5281/zenodo.21915528