more spawning
aszmant at rsmas.miami.edu
aszmant at rsmas.miami.edu
Fri Aug 18 19:14:30 EDT 1995
The folks at Biscayne National Park documented more spawning by at least two
of the Montastraea species of coral again Thursday night a bit later than on
Wednesday night. Some of the same colonies were observed to spawn & some
that did not spawn on WEednesday spawned. I heard from nancy Knowlton from
STRI in Panama, and they did have some spawning in San Blas, but they think
that many of their corals will spawn in September since they appear to have
unripe gonads at this time. Acropora palmata was observed to spawn
Wednesday night by John Halas in Key Largo (we observed it Tuesday night in
BNP). We have larval cultures from these 4 species (3 M. annularis sibs &
A. palmata) going in the lab & in the field to see if we can get settlement.
Would like to hear about spawning by other species???
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Dr. Alina M. Szmant
RSMAS-MBF, University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Cswy.
Miami FL 33149
Tel: (305)361-4609
FAX: (305)361-4600
e-mail: ASZMANT at RSMAS.MIAMI.EDU
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