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A Note on Balanophyllia regia, the only Eupsammiid Coral in the British Fauna

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

C. M. Yonge
C. M. Yonge
Affiliation:
Physiologist at the Plymouth Laboratory.
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The Eupsammiidé are one of the most interesting families of the Madjeporaria. They have an exceptionally wide range of distribution, being found alike in temperate and tropical seas. In the latter they were probably originally confined to deep water, where the majority of them still occur, but they have extended their vertical range (Yonge, 1930) and various species are now found on many of the coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific region. Thus Dendrophyllia ramea occurs in moderately deep water in the Mediterranean and has also been found in the English Channel off RoscofE (Lacaze-Duthiers, 1897), while other species of this genus are common near the surface on many of the Pacific coral reefs, the bright orange-coloured polyps of Dendrophyllia manni being, for example, very conspicuous on the fringing reefs at Kaneohe Bay on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii (Edmondson, 1929; Yonge, 1930).

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , May 1932 , pp. 219 - 224
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1932

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