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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Observations of sea surface temperature obtained during both daytime and nighttime orbits from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on NOAA's polar satellite.
Industry:Natural environment
An animal phylum that comprises the segmented worms, and includes earthworms, leeches, and a number of marine and freshwater species.
Industry:Natural environment
An animal phylum that contains lobsters, crabs, shrimp, mantis shrimp, barnacles and copepods, fairy shrimp (all crustaceans), insects, centipedes, millipedes, spiders, scorpions, horseshoe crabs, pycnogonids (sea spiders), ticks and mites. Approximately three quarters of a million species are described, many more than all the other animal phyla combined. The crustaceans are the arthropods associated with coral reefs.
Industry:Natural environment
An animal phylum that contains starfishes, sea cucumbers, sand dollars, brittlestars, basket stars, sea lilies, feather stars, and sea urchins. Adults exhibit pentamerous radial symmetry, secondarily derived from a bilateral ancestor. They are not at all related to the other radiate phyla, such as the Cnidaria.
Industry:Natural environment
An animal phylum that contains the echiurans or spoonworms. Some species inhabit coral crevices. Echiurans are deposit feeders.
Industry:Natural environment
An animal phylum that contains the peanut or starworms. They are small, non-segmented benthic animals (they are not worms), some of which live in coral crevices, empty mollusk shells or marine worm tubes. Several species bore into coralline rock.
Industry:Natural environment
An animal phylum that contains the sponges. They are the most primitive of the multicellular animals. Sponges assume many sessile body forms, such as finger, branching, bushy, spherical, tubular, vase and tube-like, encrusting, amorphous and massive. Some bore into coral and mollusk shells. Many of the 5,000 species are colourful and prominent inhabitants of coral reefs.
Industry:Natural environment
An animal phylum that includes bivalves, squids, octopuses and snails. They are distinguished by a muscular foot, a calcareous shell secreted by the underlying body wall (the mantle) and a feeding organ (the radula). Many species are common inhabitants of coral reefs.
Industry:Natural environment
An animal phylum that includes sea squirts (tunicates), lampreys and hagfishes, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Many species of marine chordates play prominent roles in the ecology of coral reef ecosystems.
Industry:Natural environment
An archipelago situated in the Arabian Sea between 08o 00’ N and 12o 30’ N latitude and 71o 00’ E and 74o 00’ E longitude and at a distance of 220 - 440 km from the west coast of India. Lakshadweep is the tiniest Union Territory of India. The coral reefs of the islands are mainly atolls except for one platform reef .
Industry:Natural environment
