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Sipunculans associated with coral communities
| Title: | Sipunculans associated with coral communities. |
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| Name(s): |
Rice, M. E. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Date Issued: | 1976 | |
| Publisher: | University of Guam Press | |
| Place of Publication: | Agana | |
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| Extent: | 14 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | FA00007092 (IID) | |
| Note(s): |
Sipunculans occupy several habitats within the coral-reef community, often
occurring in great densities. They may be found in burrows of their own formation
within dead coral rock, wedged into crevices of rock and rubble, under rocks, or
within algal mats covering the surfaces of rocks. In addition, sand-burrowing species
commonly occur in the sand around coral heads and on the sand flats of lagoons.
Only one species of sipunculan is known to be associated with a living coral. This
is Aspidosiphon jukesi Baird 1873 which lives commensally in the base of two genera
of solitary corals, Heteropsammia and Heterocyathus. This review will consider
first the mutualistic association of the sipunculan and solitary coral and then the
association, more broadly defined, of the rock-boring and sand-burrowing sipunculans
as members of the coral reef community. Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 30 This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as:Rice, M. E. (1976). Sipunculans associated with coral communities. Micronesica, 12(1) 119-132. |
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| Subject(s): |
Sipuncula Coral communities Sipunculans Mutualism (Biology) |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007092 | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
