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Cushion coral Cladocora caespitosa Madrepora a ccuscino-2024-10-05-22h12m21s934
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Cushion coral - Cladocora caespitosa

Cushion coral, Cladocora caespitosa is a typical madrepore of the Mediterranean Sea, it belongs to the Hexacorallia class and to the Cnidaria phylum., It usually has a brownish, beige or dirty white color, this one in the video is unusually very white, probably because it is "still young". It is a colony of polyps that live in symbiosis with zooxanthellae algae. The polyps form calcium carbonate deposits that form the cells in which they live and that make the madrepore grow in size ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Cushion coral Cladocora caespitosa Madrepora a cuscino-2023-08-01-07h21m33s605
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Cladocora caespitosa - Cushion coral

Cladocora caespitosa, Cushion coral Madrepora, is the typical madrepora of the Mediterranean and is also considered the most important endemic bioconstructor coral of the Mediterranean Sea. It forms colonies often isolated, but sometimes capable of forming aggregations. Low densities are recorded in the Adriatic (populations are slightly declining), while in other areas the species is in great expansion ...
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madrepora a cuscino – cladocora caespitosa – cushion coral – intotheblue.it – vlcsnap-2018-01-25-10h29m28s864
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Cushion Coral

Cladocora caespitosa, commonly known as cushion coral, (Linnaeus, 1758) is a large madrepore of the order Madreporari, subclass Hexacorallia, Class Anthozoans (Philum Cnidaria) ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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