Trug coral
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Trug coral, behind it a monk fish . |
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The coral ( Myriapora truncata ) is a bryozoa (also known as Ectoprocta) that occurs throughout the Mediterranean Sea and in parts of the adjacent eastern Atlantic . It lives in shady and poor light areas of the coast under overhangs and in front cave areas.
features
Colonies of trapped corals reach a height of 15 centimeters and a diameter of ten, more rarely more than eight centimeters. They have bush-like and evenly branched branches with a round cross-section. Due to the orange-red color, the coral-like habit and the blunt branch ends , the colony resembles a precious coral , the ends of which have been broken off. Dead colonies or parts of the colonies become yellowish-white. The individual animals sit in the pore-like holes in the branches. The coral is common and easy to spot thanks to its striking color and colony size.
Multiplication
A false coral colony is created by the asexual reproduction (budding) of a single animal (primary cooid), which itself has emerged from sexual reproduction. The primary zoo produces daughter zoos, which in turn bud and form daughter zoos. The zooids are hermaphrodites. From their sexual reproduction larvae develop, which then attach themselves to a suitable hard substrate and form primary zooids.
literature
- Matthias Bergbauer, Bernd Humberg: What lives in the Mediterranean? 1999, Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, ISBN 3-440-07733-0
Web links
- World Register of Marine Species: Myriapora truncata (Pallas, 1766)