XENIA & XENIIDS: Beautiful, beguiling, and sometimes a bane
by Felicia McCaulley
ONLINE READING
Polyp dimorphism and functional, sequential hermaphroditism in the soft coral Heteroxenia fuscescens (Octocorallia) – https://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/64/m064p263.pdf
Planulae brooding and acquisition of zooxanthellae in Xenia macrospiculata (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) – https://hmr.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1007/BF02367101
Marine Species Identification Portal, Genus Xenia – http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=corals&id=213&menuentry=groepen
Benefit of pulsation in soft corals – https://www.pnas.org/content/110/22/8978
To Pulse Or Not To Pulse: Identification and Behaior of Xeniid Corals in the Aquarium Hobby – http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-02/ac/feature/index.php
Radial Filefish (Acreichthys radiatus) – https://aquanerd.com/2015/11/radial-filefish-acreichthysradiatus.html
Iodide accumulation provides kelp with an inorganic antioxidant impacting atmospheric chemistry – https://www.pnas.org/content/105/19/6954.short
REFERENCES
Bos, A.R. 2016. Soft corals provide microhabitat for camouflaged juveniles of the Blackspotted wrasse Macropharyngodon meleagris. Marine Biodiversity 46(1):
299–301 DOI 10.1007/s12526-015-0332-x 299 – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272417078
Calfo, A. 2007. Book of Coral Propagation. Reading Trees, Pittsburgh, PA.
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