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Plate coral photographed at Wilson Island, near the Tropic of Capricorn on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland.
Image by ozwildlife - Some rights reserved.
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PLATE CORAL FACTS |
Description
Plate Coral is from the same genus as Staghorn Coral. Plate Coral build up large structures of flat overlapping plates.
Food
Plate coral gets most of its nutrients from a single-celled algae called zooxanthellae that grows with it on the reef. Corals can also catch plankton using stinging cells on their tentacles
Breeding
A head of coral grows by asexual reproduction of the individual polyps. Corals also breed sexually by spawning.
Classification
| Class: | Anthozoa | | Order: | Scleractinia | | Family: | Acroporidae | | Genus: | Acropora | | Species: | sp2 | | Common Name: | Plate Coral |
Relatives in same Genus
Staghorn Coral (A. unknown species)
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