This broad-ranging treatment is the first to synthesise current understanding of all types of cold-water coral, covering their ecology, biology, palaeontology and geology. Beginning with a history of ...

The team concludes by noting that deep sea reefs do not face the ... Pomacentridae), a new species of damselfish from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Maldives, ZooKeys (2024).

Palau reefs are hosts to over 300 species of coral, nine species of sea grass, and 2,000 species of fish. Each member of this ecosystem depends the others to survive. When one piece of the link is ...

A small team of ichthyologists at the California Academy of Sciences has discovered a new species of damselfish living off ...

Relatives of the sea anemone and every bit as splashy ... In 2012, the agency proposed to upgrade the coral's Endangered Species Act status from "threatened" to "endangered." And now, thanks to a ...

Other experts fear a repetition of what happened 40 years ago in the Caribbean when a pathogen killed off up to 99% of a closely related species of sea urchin. A thriving coral reef turned into an ...

More information: Samuel A. Vohsen et al, Discovery of deep-sea coral symbionts from a novel clade of marine bacteria with ...

TSURUOKA, Yamagata Prefecture--A species of coral previously not found this far ... of Tsuruoka in Yamagata Prefecture, which faces the Sea of Japan. The northern limit of the reef-building ...