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staghorn coral

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Noun1.staghorn coral - large branching coral resembling antlers
madrepore, madriporian coral, stony coral - corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands
Acropora, genus Acropora - coelenterate genus of order Madreporaria, including staghorn corals


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For the first time known by scientists, a team of students led by Ken Nedimyer of the Coral Restoration Foundation collected staghorn coral gametes spawned during August's full moon from adult corals that, years earlier, had been cut as juveniles, grown in a coral nursery and transplanted into new coral habitat in Keys waters.
The degradation of Caribbean reefs is not entirely linked to climate change, with disease killing about 90% of Elkhorn and Staghorn Corals in the 1970s, but a second period of coral destruction is now under way.
The first occurred when a widespread disease killed about 90 per cent of the Elkhorn and Staghorn corals in the late 1970s.
 
 
 
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