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Lobophytum Hsiehi
''Lobophytum hsiehi'' is a coral species of the genus ''Lobophytum ''Lobophytum'' is a genus of soft corals commonly known as devil's hand corals or devil's hand leather corals. Habitat and range ''Lobophytum'' species can be found in shallow water throughout a wide area of the tropical Indo-Pacific The ...'' found is shallow waters in the Indo-pacific. References Alcyoniidae Animals described in 1956 {{Anthozoa-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lobophytum
''Lobophytum'' is a genus of soft corals commonly known as devil's hand corals or devil's hand leather corals. Habitat and range ''Lobophytum'' species can be found in shallow water throughout a wide area of the tropical Indo-Pacific. Species *'' Lobophytum altum'' Tixier-Durivault, 1956 *'' Lobophytum anomolum'' Li, 1984 *''Lobophytum batarum'' Moser, 1919 *'' Lobophytum borbonicum'' von Marenzeller, 1886 *'' Lobophytum caputospiculatum'' Li, 1984 *''Lobophytum catalai'' Tixier-Durivault, 1957 *''Lobophytum compactum'' Tixier-Durivault, 1956 *'' Lobophytum crassodigitum'' Li, 1984 *'' Lobophytum crassospiculatum'' (Moser, 1919) *'' Lobophytum crassum'' von Marenzeller, 1886 *''Lobophytum crebliplicatum'' von Marenzeller, 1886 *'' Lobophytum cristagalli'' von Marenzeller, 1886 *''Lobophytum cristatum'' Tixier-Durivault, 1970 *''Lobophytum cryptocormum'' Verseveldt & Tursch, 1979 *'' Lobophytum delectum'' Tixier-Durivault, 1966 *''Lobophytum densum'' Tixier-Durivault, 1970 *'' Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shallow Water Marine Environment
Shallow water marine environment refers to the area between the shore and deeper water, such as a reef wall or a shelf break. This environment is characterized by oceanic, geological and biological conditions, as described below. The water in this environment is shallow and clear, allowing the formation of different sedimentary structures, carbonate rocks, coral reefs, and allowing certain organisms to survive and become fossils. Sediment The sediment itself is often composed of limestone, which forms readily in shallow, warm calm waters. The shallow marine environments are not exclusively composed of siliciclastic or carbonaceous sediments. While they cannot always coexist, it is possible to have a shallow marine environment composed solely of carbonaceous sediment or one that is composed completely of siliciclastic sediment. Shallow water marine sediment is made up of larger grain sizes because smaller grains have been washed out to deeper water. Within sedimentary rocks comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth. In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the seas connecting the two in the general area of Indonesia. It does not include the temperate and polar regions of the Indian and Pacific oceans, nor the Tropical Eastern Pacific, along the Pacific coast of the Americas, which is also a distinct marine realm. The term is especially useful in marine biology, ichthyology, and similar fields, since many marine habitats are continuously connected from Madagascar to Japan and Oceania, and a number of species occur over that range, but are not found in the Atlantic Ocean. The region has an exceptionally high species richness, with the world's highest species richness being found in at its heart in the Coral Triangle, and a remarkable gradient of decreasing species richness radiating outward in al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcyoniidae
Alcyoniidae is a family of leathery or soft corals in the phylum Cnidaria.Leathery corals Wildsingapore.com (2010-02-28). Retrieved on 2013-09-17. Description A colony of leathery coral is stiff, hard and inflexible. It is composed of tiny polyps projecting from a shared leathery tissue. Members of the family may have two kinds of polyps; the autozooids have long trunks and eight tiny branched tentacles and project from the shared leathery tissue while the siphonozooids remain below the surface and pump water for the colony. They appear as tiny hollows or mounds among the taller autozooids. Different genera have different proportions of these two kinds of polyps. The autozooids only emerge when the colony is fully submerged.Distribution and habitat Leathe ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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