encrusting shape of colonial corallum

Summary

(sensu lato) attached to the substrate. Many corals are initiated by encrustation at a larval stage and may develop extensive areas of attachment to the substrate. However, 'encrusting' has come to be used in a particular sense to refer to sheet-like colonies, all, or most, of whose aboral surfaces remain attached to the substrate (i.e. the term combines colony shape and relationship to substrate.). See also Platy.

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This term is a sub-term of shape of colonial corallum.

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This version was contributed by Ken Johnson on 22-Apr-2008 14:35.