Description of a new species of black coral in the family Aphanipathidae (Anthozoa, Antipatharia) from Puerto Rico [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 Black corals (Anthozoa: Antipatharia) are an anthozoan lineage in the class Hexacorallia that occur across a wide range of habitats from the tropics to the poles and from surface waters to depths deeper than 8000 m.
Jeremy Horowitz +3 more
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A mesophotic black coral forest in the Adriatic Sea. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 A forest of the black coral Antipathella subpinnata was found from 52 to 80 m depth in three different sites at Tremiti Islands Marine Protected Area (MPA; Mediterranean Sea), with two of them hosting a monospecific forest on horizontal and vertical ...
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Local Conditions Influence the Prokaryotic Communities Associated With the Mesophotic Black Coral Antipathella subpinnata [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Black corals are important habitat-forming species in the mesophotic and deep-sea zones of the world’s oceans because of their arborescent colony structure and tendency to form animal forests. Although we have started unraveling the ecology of mesophotic
Jeroen A. J. M. van de Water +6 more
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Black coral forests enhance taxonomic and functional distinctiveness of mesophotic fishes in an oceanic island: implications for biodiversity conservation. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 The degradation of shallow ecosystems has called for efforts to understand the biodiversity and functioning of Mesophotic Ecosystems. However, most empirical studies have been restricted to tropical regions and have majorly focused on taxonomic entities (
Bosch NE +5 more
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Environmental Status and Geomorphological Characterisation of Seven Black Coral Forests on the Sardinian Continental Shelf (NW Mediterranean Sea). [PDF]
Biology (Basel), 2022 Simple Summary Black coral forests are three-dimensional components of the marine mesophotic benthic community that play a crucial role in the benthic–pelagic processes, enhancing substrate complexity and creating numerous ecological niches and ...
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Habitat suitability mapping of the black coral Leiopathes glaberrima to support conservation of vulnerable marine ecosystems. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 The black coral Leiopathes glaberrima is an important habitat forming species that supports benthic biodiversity. Due to its high sensitivity to fishing activities, it has been classified as indicator of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs).
Lauria V +4 more
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Can black coral forests be detected using multibeam echosounder “multi-detect” data?
Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 2023 The black coral Anthipatella wollastoni forms marine animal forests in the mesophotic zone. The spatial extent of black coral forests is not well known in many regions.
Peter Feldens +6 more
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Electrochemical Approach for Isolation of Chitin from the Skeleton of the Black Coral Cirrhipathes sp. (Antipatharia). [PDF]
Mar Drugs, 2020 The development of novel and effective methods for the isolation of chitin, which remains one of the fundamental aminopolysaccharides within skeletal structures of diverse marine invertebrates, is still relevant. In contrast to numerous studies on chitin
Nowacki K +11 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Black corals, ecologically important cnidarians found from shallow to deep ocean depths, form a strong yet flexible skeleton of sclerotized chitin and other biomolecules including proteins.
Jeana L. Drake, Tali Mass, Tali Mass
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Ageing Deep-Sea Black Coral Bathypathes patula
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 Deep-sea corals are a highly diverse group of marine organisms, several of which are characterised by slow growth and extreme longevity up to thousands of years.
Peter Marriott +6 more
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