• In corals, the coenosarc is the living tissue overlying the stony skeletal material of the coral. It secretes the coenosteum, the layer of skeletal material...
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    a sheet of living tissue, the coenosarc, which joins the polyps and anchors the colony to the substrate. The coenosarc may consist of a thin membrane...
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    muscles. The polyps are connected by horizontal sheets of tissue known as coenosarc extending over the outer surface of the skeleton and completely covering...
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    and protect the organism. This is deposited by the polyps and by the coenosarc, the living tissue that connects them. The polyps sit in cup-shaped depressions...
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    corals are animals that are physically connected by living tissue (the coenosarc) that contains a shared gastrovascular cavity. Unicellular and multicellular...
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    long as the colony is alive, the polyps and coenosarc deposit further calcium carbonate under the coenosarc, thus deepening the corallites. Each polyp...
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    structures. The gonophores in the family Milleporidae arise from the coenosarc (the hollow living tubes of the upright branching individuals of a colony)...
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  • corals, the coenosteum is the stony skeletal material secreted by the coenosarc, the layer of living material lying between the corallites (the stony...
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    specialized for defense. The main stalky body of the colony is composed of a coenosarc, which is covered by a protective perisarc. The next generation of the...
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    colony showing branching pattern, magnification × 8. br. = branch, coen. = coenosarc, n.t.1/2/3/4 = new tubes enveloping a branch from a coenosarcal strand...
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    original polyp remain connected to each other, by a stolonal network or coenosarc. Some species are solitary. While the most well-known zoanthids are the...
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    coloured, with contrasting (often green) oral discs and brown, red or purple coenosarc, the living tissue that covers the skeleton between the polyps. Favites...
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    formed by coalescence and modification of adjacent hydrocauline tubes. The coenosarc covers the entire colony and penetrates skeletal interstices. The hydranths...
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    gonophores in the family Solanderiidae, where known, arise directly from coenosarc (i.e. the hollow living tubes of the upright branching individuals of...
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    coverage within the different regions of the colony and protects the coenosarc of the polypoid stage. It originates as epidermal secretions, with the...
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  • small stalked barnacle some 2 to 5 mm (0.1 to 0.2 in) in length. The coenosarc (living tissue) of the host coral sometimes grows over the surface of...
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    layer of living tissue, the coenosarc. M. auretenra is unusual in this respect because, as the coral grows, the coenosarc progressively dies back on the...
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    connected by a layer of translucent, jelly-like mesoglea tissue called coenosarc which covers the surface of the carbonate skeleton. During the day they...
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    polyp every three days. In colder conditions it may stop growing and the coenosarc (soft tissues) may die back to some extent or lose symbionts via expulsion...
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    is called the hydrocalus, and it has two layers – the coenosarc and the perisarc. The coenosarc is the internal tube, containing the coelenteron, and...
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    It is also likely to benefit from some diffusion of nutrients from the coenosarc (living tissue) of the coral which overgrows it, another reason for considering...
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    Polyps of these types of corals are connected by a sheet of tissue called coenosarc. These polyps range in size from 1–3 mm in diameter. Soft coral is categorized...
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  • from botany. The solenia circulate nutrients throughout the coenenchyme. Coenosarc is an alternative name. Menzel, L.P.; Tondo, C.; Stein, B.; Bigger, C...
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    dies. This has been termed "polyp bail-out" and involves growth of the coenosarc (the living tissue covering the skeleton) to isolate the polyp, detachment...
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  • of Hydroid and Bougainvillidae family starts as epidermal secretions. Coenosarc, which is the epithelial epidermal layer consists of various cell types...
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  • the polyp that sits inside it. New polyps grow on short stolons and the coenosarc (soft tissue) does not cover the skeleton in a continuous sheet as it...
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    also fused. The polyps are 1 millimetre (0.04 in) in diameter and the coenosarc covering the skeleton is thin. Porites lobata is a common species of coral...
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