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2010, Oceanography 23(1):128–129, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2010.91
BOX 7 | Deep-Sea Corals on Seamounts
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Authors
Peter J. Etnoyer | Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. His current address is National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Charleston, SC, USA
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Deep-sea corals are solitary and colonial suspension-feeding cnidarians commonly associated with seamounts around the world. They are important components of seamount ecology, providing food and refuge for numerous associated species of fish, crabs, shrimp, and sea stars at depths where few other habitat formers live (50–6000 m). Deep-sea corals are a rich assemblage in their own right, a paraphyletic taxonomic group (derived from several ancestors) of more than 3300 species of azooxanthellate stony corals (Figure 1; Scleractinia) and soft corals (Figure 2; Octocorallia) (Cairns, 2007).
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Citation
Etnoyer, P.J. 2010. Box 7: Deep-sea corals on seamounts. Oceanography 23(1):128–129, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2010.91.