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ANTIPATHAIRE [2 records]

Record 1 1999-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sponges, Hydrozoans and Jellyfish
DEF

An order or suborder of Anthozoa comprising the black or thorny corals, all having a usually brown or black axial skeleton that is much branched and hornlike and polyps with few mesenteries or tentacles

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éponges, hydres et méduses
DEF

Nidaire hexacoralliaire colonial des grands fonds, à squelette axial corné, à polypes à six tentacules. (Le squelette, qui ressemble à celui des gorgones, forme le corail noire, les antépathaire forment un ordre.).

Spanish

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Record 2 1991-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sponges, Hydrozoans and Jellyfish
DEF

An order or suborder of Anthozoa comprising the black or thorny corals, all having a usually brown or black axial skeleton that is much branched and hornlike and polyps with few mesenteries or tentacles.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éponges, hydres et méduses
DEF

Cnidaire hexacoralliaire colonial des grands fonds, à squelette axial corné, à polypes à six tentacules.

Spanish

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