This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...Abrolhos corals, there was one form developed under conditions closely corresponding with the last-mentioned type, but notable for its usually pale sage-green hue, and the remarkable diversity in the contour of its coralla. In some instances, it formed robust, shortly branching, bush-like growths; in others, fan-like ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...Abrolhos corals, there was one form developed under conditions closely corresponding with the last-mentioned type, but notable for its usually pale sage-green hue, and the remarkable diversity in the contour of its coralla. In some instances, it formed robust, shortly branching, bush-like growths; in others, fan-like expansions, or even encrusting masses, or it might be a combination of these types. Two characteristic illustrations of this coral, which is apparently an undescribed species, but allied to Madrepora sarmentosa, also a new species collected by the writer on the Great Barrier Reef, are given in Plate XXV. In the upper of these two, the encrusting character of the initial or basal growth-stage of the species is very obvious. A third and remarkably fine example of this coral, obtained in the south entrance to Shark's Bay, which measures over three feet across, figures as a tailpiece to this Chapter. It combines in its individual corallum so many noteworthy variations that detached fragments from separated areas might be readily mistaken for distinct species. All of these specimens figured, together with several additional ones, have been contributed by the author to the British Museum Coral Galleries. They there constitute a most instructive object lesson for the benefit of those systematic zoologists with whom small or fragmentary specimens alone have been hitherto available for classificatory purposes. In recognition of the multitudinous growth-forms exhibited by this particular coral, it is proposed here to provisionally distinguish it by the suggestive title of Madrepora protceiformis. Many of the areas of the Abrolhos reefs were characterised by an interblending of all of the various species of Madrepora enumerated in the foregoing paragraphs...
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