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Invertebrates
Coral
Coral polyps are tiny, soft-bodied organisms related to sea anemones and jellyfish. At their base is a hard, rough, protective limestone skeleton called a calicle, which forms the structure of coral reef.
While corals get most of their nutrients from the byproducts of the algae's photosynthesis, they also have barbed, venomous tentacles they can stick out, usually at night, to grab zooplankton and even small fish, a corals diet is mostly carnivore.
Reefs begin when a polyp attatches itself to a rock on the sea floor, then it will divide or bud.
The coral's category is a cnidarians. To move they connect to one another to make one single organism.
Corals live in tropical waters all over the world, usually close to the surface of the water where the sun's rays can reach the algae. Some interesting facts are that the Coral's size relative is to a tea cup and its average lifespan in the wild is polyp; two years to hundreds of years, Colony; five years to several centuries.
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