Coral Community on Muddy Sand (original) (raw)

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Heteropsammia michelinii, a free-living and free-moving scleractinian coral found in the Australian Great Barrier Reef, has a symbiotic association with a sipunculid worm, Aspidosiphon corallicola. The worm lives in a cavity on the under surface of the coral and it pulls the coral over the muddy surface of the sand.

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1. University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
   T. F. GOREAU
2. State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY
   T. F. GOREAU
3. University of Glasgow, Scotland
   C. M. YONGE

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1. T. F. GOREAU
2. C. M. YONGE

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GOREAU, T., YONGE, C. Coral Community on Muddy Sand.Nature 217, 421–423 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217421a0

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• Received: 11 January 1968
• Published: 01 February 1968
• Issue date: 03 February 1968
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/217421a0