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Corals

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Title Corals
 
Creator Pillai, C S G
 
Subject Coral Reefs
 
Description Corals art objects of beauty and utility. They are found only in the sea, mainly
in tropical and subtropics1 regions. Only very few, other than students of biology know
that they are sedentary animals possessing a hard internal or external skeleton. They have
attracted the attention of the biologists only recently and several problems related to them
are still not explained to our fullest satisfaction. Earlier naturalists regarded them as marine
plants, probably due to their sedentary habit and plant-like growth form, It was only in
the latter half of the cigbteenth century Peyssonnel proved the animal nature of corals,
But even middle nineteenth century students of natural history assigned them a place only
between animals and plants and wore accordingly called 'zoophytes'.
 
Date 1967
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/5580/1/23.pdf
Pillai, C S G (1967) Corals. In: Souvenir 20th Anniversary Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, 3 February 1967, Mandapam.