madrepore

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corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands

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Because the tracer studies showed that seawater must enter the madreporitic pores, at least in small quantities, a study was made to see whether that uptake was essential to the animals.
I conclude, then, that most of the fluid pumped by the stone canal is coelomic - not seawater flowing in through the two madreporitic pores.
The structure and mode of function of the water vascular system of a brittlestar, Ophioderma appressum
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