Microscopic Mayhem When Corals Are Attacked
A juvenile Crown-of-Thorns Starfish with ultimately fatal damage to the arms and central disk after being repelled by the stinging weaponry of an Acropora coral. Credit: Dione Deaker, University of Sydney.
Coral can fight back against attacking juvenile Crown-of-Thorns starfish—using stinging cells to injure and…
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Matt Pedersen says:
Some addtional updates: Bocas Mariculture reports the successful cultivation of Serranus flaviventris, which didn't make it onto the list, and two accomplishments initially attributed to Bocas were in fact reported by Till Deuss from earlier when he was working with Biota Palau, so these have been attributed to the Biota Group with date information.Matt Pedersen says:
It's been brought to my attention that we overlooked the first breeding of Corythoichthys conspicillatus by Pholium Mariculture in the UK, which occurred in 2022. And thus, the first addition to the next list is already known!CORAL Magazine’s Captive-Bred Marine Fish Species List for says:
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