Widespread Occurrence of a Rarely Known Association between the Hydrocorals <i>Stylaster roseus</i> and <i>Millepora alcicornis</i> at Bonaire, Southern Caribbean

Widespread Occurrence of a Rarely Known Association between the Hydrocorals <i>Stylaster roseus</i> and <i>Millepora alcicornis</i> at Bonaire, Southern Caribbean

Among symbiotic associations, cases of pseudo-auto-epizoism, in which a species uses a resembling but not directly related species as substrate, are poorly documented in coral reef ecosystems. In the present study, we assessed the distribution of an association between the hydrocorals <i>Styla...

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Main Authors: Simone Montano, James D. Reimer, Viatcheslav N. Ivanenko, Jaaziel E. García-Hernández, Godfried W.N.M. van Moorsel, Paolo Galli, Bert W. Hoeksema
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-05-01
Series:Diversity
Subjects:
Caribbean Netherlands
fire corals
Hydrozoa
pseudo-auto-epizoism
stony corals
substrate
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/12/6/218

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