[Coral-List] Acropora hybrid
megan berkle
zennnnwoman at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 21 19:21:21 EST 2005
Hey Everyone:
I was snorkelling in Tayrona National Park off of Playa Cristal in
Colombia. The majority of corals nearshore have 100% morality.
Offshore about 100 meters the corals had white band disease and I
believe purple blotch disease (one I have seen before in Florida). I
saw some Acropora palmata with Acropora cervicornis branches growing
out of it. It did not look like A. cervicornis recruits settled on
top of A. palmata and began to grow. It looked like maybe genetically
these two species mixed and formed a sort of hybrid species. Is this
possible?
Megan Berkle
Marine Science teacher, Florida
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