GOREAU & YONGE, 1968

Author(s):Goreau, T. F., Yonge, C. M.
Year:1968
Title:Coral Community on Muddy Sand
Journal:Nature
Volume:217
Number:5127
Pages:421-423
Abstract

Heteropsammia michelinii, a free-living and free-moving scleractinian coral found in the Australian Great Barrier Reef, has a symbiotic association with a sipunculid worm, Aspidosiphon corallicola. The worm lives in a cavity on the under surface of the coral and it pulls the coral over the muddy surface of the sand.

Keywords:Australia, Corals, Great Barrier Reef, Paleontology, Sipunculids, Symbiosis
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/217421a0
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