RADIAL SKELETAL DISSOLUTION TO PROMOTE VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION IN A SOLITARY CORAL DIASERIS-DISTORTA

Authors
YAMASHIRO H NISHIHIRA M
Citation
H. Yamashiro et M. Nishihira, RADIAL SKELETAL DISSOLUTION TO PROMOTE VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION IN A SOLITARY CORAL DIASERIS-DISTORTA, Experientia, 50(5), 1994, pp. 497-498
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Experientia → ACNP
ISSN journal
00144754
Volume
50
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
497 - 498
Database
ISI
SICI code
0014-4754(1994)50:5<497:RSDTPV>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
The solitary, free-living coral Diaseris distorta (Michelin) (Fungiida e, Scleractinia) reproduces asexually by fragmentation along radially oriented slits. Localized skeletal dissolution, which can be recognize d as white, opaque and chalky lines along the thecal wall between segm ents, ultimately results in autotomy. We suggest that the skeletal dis solution which dissolves the weakest part of the corallum for easy bre akage, is a species-specific character.