Radial Corallite
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Introduction
Radial corallites are the peripheral ones arranged around the axis formed by the axial corallite of Acropora. They can form a wide variety of shapes, not just the simple cylindrial shape that axial corallites have. They are shorter than the axial corallites, from which they bud off below the extending tip of the axial corallite.[1]
Gallery
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Radial corallites circles in yellow, axial corallite in red
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Scanning electro microscope image of a radial corallite of Acropora sp..
References
- ↑ (Wallace 1999): Wallace, C., Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the genus Acropora, CSIRC Publishing: Collingwood, 1999.
