lettuce coral造句

• Plate growth adopts a shape similar to that of the smaller nonsheet lettuce corals-erect, thin sheets, which group together to form a colony.
• The robust shape, size, and slow growth of the boulder brain coral allows it more easily to survive conditions to which smaller and more fragile corals, such as the plate-like lettuce coral ( " Agaricia agaricites " ), succumb . " C . natans " and the sympatric and similarly named boulder star coral ( " Montastraea annularis " ) are less likely to be smothered by algal bloom, and have also weathered reef-wrecking Hurricane Allen off the coast of Jamaica in 1980.
• Other common species of hard coral found on the Florida Reef include Ivory Bush Coral ( " Oculina diffusa " ), which is the dominant coral in the patch reefs along the Florida coast north of the Florida Keys, Staghorn coral ( " Acropora cervicornis " ), Lettuce Coral ( " Agaricia agaricites " ), Grooved Brain Coral ( " Diploria labyrinthiformis " ), Boulder Star Coral ( " Monstastrea annularis " ), Great Star Coral ( " M . cavernosa " ), Clubbed Finger Coral ( " Porites porites " ) and Massive Starlet Coral ( " Siderastrea siderea " ).