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Castles built by chiton from the Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji
| Title: | Castles built by chiton from the Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji. |
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| Name(s): |
Littler, Mark M., creator Littler, Diane S., creator Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 1999 | |
| Publisher: | Springer | |
| Extent: | 2 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3333218 (digitool), FADT3333218 (IID), fau:6288 (fedora), 10.1007/s003380050171 (doi) | |
| Note(s): |
Castle-like, pink, coralline-algal structures occur abundantly above 20 m in depth on the outer Great Astrolabe Reef and throughout Fijian waters. The herbivorous chiton Cryptoplax larvaeformis (Tyron 1887) (Inset, CL), by its mode of radular scraping, alters the meristematic growth of its principal prey, the normally two-dimensional crustose-coralline alga Porolithon (Hydrolithon) oncodes (Heydrich) Foslie (Inset, A), to produce remarkable three-dimensional honeycombed heads (Inset, B). This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available at http://www.springerlink.com and may be cited as: Littler, M. M., & Littler, D. S. (1999). Castles built by chiton from the Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji. Coral Reefs, 18(2), 158. doi:10.1007/s003380050171 Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1266. |
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| Subject(s): |
Great Astrolabe Reef (Fiji) Chitons Cryptoplax larvaeformis Coralline algae |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3333218 | |
| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s003380050171 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©1999 Springer | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
