GOREAU & YONGE, 1968
| Author(s): | Goreau, T. F., Yonge, C. M. |
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| 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 |