View Brain Coral Skeleton US

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View Brain Coral Skeleton US. Because of their massive, sturdy structure, they form the foundation of coral. Brain corals grow very slowly as each generation adds to the limestone skeleton.

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✓ free for commercial use ✓ high quality images. Some brain corals can live up to 900 years. Each head of coral is formed by a colony of genetically identical polyps which secrete a hard skeleton of calcium.

Grooved brain coral structures only grow a few millimeters each year and may be hundreds of years old.

1024 x 577 jpeg 119 кб. The lobophyllia brain coral is a large polyp stony (lps) coral often referred to as a lobed, colored it has fleshy polyps that hide its calcareous skeleton. It is truly one of the best corals i and you guys will ever keep. Coral, any of a variety of invertebrate marine organisms of the class anthozoa that are characterized by skeletons—external or internal—of a stonelike, horny, or leathery consistency.