How To Use actinian In A Sentence
- Even on reefs, most species of host actinians are inconspicuous, unlike their partner fish.
- It has been seen that varying temperatures have a dramatic effect on the growth rates of some actinians.
- Chaetodon capistratus is a browser who feeds on anthozoans preferring hexacoral such as scleractinians, anemones, and zoantharians.
- However, actinians, like all coelenterates, capture and digest animal prey with their nematocysts.
- In any case, most if not all Triassic scleractinians, whether zooxanthellate or not, show skeletal construction different from modern (strictly post-Cretaceous) equivalents.
- The larger, more conspicuous include other species of cold-water coral, actinians and sponges.
- Since the beginning of the Cenozoic, reefs have become dominated by scleractinian corals and calcareous algae.
- Cold-water coral mound dominated by Lophelia pertusa and colonised by orange actinians and a white anthipathrian.
