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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A vertebrate whose embryo is surrounded by a fluid-filled sac, the amnion; characteristic of reptiles, birds, and mammals.
Industry:Natural environment
An injury that results from rapid or extreme changes in pressure. Scuba divers may experience ear barotrauma, a condition of discomfort in the ear caused by pressure differences between the inside and the outside of the eardrum.
Industry:Natural environment
Belonging to a thing by its very nature; the essential nature or constitution of a thing; inherent; in and of itself .
Industry:Natural environment
In taxonomy, any name which conforms to all mandatory provisions of the Code. There are general requirements of publication and date, language, name formation etc. An available name is not necessarily a valid name, as an available name may be in synonymy. Conversely a valid name must always be an available one.
Industry:Natural environment
One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a coral polyp; the calyx.
Industry:Natural environment
Simplest body form of sponges, with canals leading directly from the surrounding water to the interior spongocoel.
Industry:Natural environment
The systematic classification of groups of organisms on the basis of the order of their assumed divergence from ancestral species.
Industry:Natural environment
Wastes (mostly liquid) originating from a community; may be composed of domestic wastewaters and/or industrial discharges.
Industry:Natural environment
