There are many varieties of corals, but the major reef - building ones are the massive forms of brain coral; various types of finger coral; two well -
known branching corals, elkhorn and staghorn; and sheet coral.
Not exact matches
Researchers
knew that the small Mediterranean nudibranch Cratena peregrina, with a colorful mane of streamers rippling off its body, climbs and preys on pipe cleaner skinny,
branched colonies of Eudendrium racemosum hydroids, which are distant relatives of
corals.
To determine their effect on individual
corals, the scientists exposed small
branch clippings, otherwise
known as «nubbins,» of two species — Stylophora pistillata and Pocillopora damicornis, both found in the Red Sea — to solutions of 6 different dispersants for a period of 24 hours and monitored their health for the ensuing week.