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Madreporaria [‚mad·rə·pə′rar·ē·ə]

(invertebrate zoology)

The equivalent name for Scleractinia.

Madreporaria

an order of marine coelenterates of the class Anthozoa. They are predominantly colonial forms that are attached to the sea floor. Solitary madreporic corals are up to 25 cm across (Fungia), and separate individuals of the colonial forms are from 1 mm to 3 cm in diameter. Colonies can extend for several meters and have various forms. The basic part of the colony is the calcareous skeleton. There are approximately 2,500 species.

Madreporic corals are found in all the oceans of the world but are distributed very unevenly. They live mostly in clean water saturated with oxygen, in seas with normal salinity, and at a temperature no lower than 20.5°C. For this reason, madreporic corals grow largest in the upper layers (no deeper than 50 m) of the tropical waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Caribbean Sea. In these regions madreporic corals and bryozoans, mollusks, calcareous algae, and some other marine organisms form huge colonies, called coral reefs. The vivid colors of reef-forming madreporic corals are provided by pigments and symbiotic one-celled algae living in their tissues. The crevices of the reef are inhabited by other coelenterates, worms, mollusks, crustaceans, echinoderms, and fish; many of these organisms feed on the madreporic corals. At greater depths (to 6,000 m) only some small solitary madreporic corals are found.

The seas of the temperate and polar latitudes have only a few species of Madreporaria, which form large colonies only rarely (for example, in the Norwegian Sea colonies of Lophelia are found at a depth of about 200 m). The seas of the USSR have only noncolonial forms: Flabellum in the Barents Sea and Caryophyllia in the seas of the Far East. Dead madreporic corals form deposits of organogenic limestone, which is used to obtain sawed stone, wall blocks, and raw material for the production of lime and pigments. Colonies of madreporic corals or parts of colonies are used as table ornaments.

D. V. NAUMOV

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No references found	These piles of clay, like madrepore (1) launched upon the dark waters of the Styx for an uncertain after- life, these altars or recumbent statues due to leave for a long journey seem to question us before the last great leap, they are saying goodbye to us with soothing words. Terres Extremes--four artists by Batlle, Michel / Ceramics Art & Perception The hero, a poet revolutionary, as a result of some explorations among the poorest of London, suffers a bout of brain fever, in which he has a most peculiar dream: I was at the lowest point of created life; a madrepore rooted to the rock, fathoms below the tide-mark . Charles Kingsley: divine love, divine order by Derbyshire, John / New Criterion In these same works, Consolo also recovers from oblivion the ravages of the post World War II modernization on Catania, Avola, Palermo, Caltagirone, Trapani, Gibellina, Noto, Messina, Siracusa, Milazzo, Melilli, Priolo, Augusta, Licata, and especially Gela: Da quei pozzi, da quelle ciminiere sopra templi e necropoli, da quei sottosuoli d'ammassi di madrepore e di ossa, di tufi scanalati, cocci dipinti, dall'acropoli sul colle difesa da muraglie, dalla spiaggia aperta a ogni sbarco . Vincenzo Consolo and the postmodern writing of melancholy by Bouchard, Norma / Italica	Madison, James Madison, Oscar Madison, Percival Wemys Madisonville madistor Madiun Madiun Incidents of 1948 Madler, Johann Heinrich Von Mädler, Johann Heinrich Von Madmannah Madness Madoc Madoera Madona Madonna Madonna lily Madonna, b. Madras Madras, University of Madrasa madrasah Madre de Dios Madre de Dios River Madre, Laguna Madreporaria madrepore madreporite Madrid Madrid, Treaty of Madrid, University of Madrigal madroño Madsen impedance meter MADT madtom MADTRAN Madura madura foot Madurai Madurese Maduromycosis Madwoman of Chaillot Madwoman of Chaillot, The Madzhar MAE Mae Klong Mae Nam Chao Phraya MAE-Central MAE-East MAE-West Maeander	Madrasah Wak Tanjong Al-Islamiah Madrasahs Madrasahs Madrasas Madrasas Madrasi Madrasi Madrassa Madrassa madrassah madrassah Madrassahs Madrassahs Madrassas Madrassas MADRE Madre de Dios Madre de Dios Madre de Dios River Madre, Laguna MADREC MADREP Madreperl Madrepora Madreporaria Madreporaria madreporarian madreporarian madreporarians madreporarians madrepore madrepores madrepores madreporian madreporic Madreporic plate madreporic tubercule Madreporiform madreporite madreporite madreporites madreporites Madresfield Early Years Centre Madressa Madressa MADRF MADRG Madri Madrid Madrid Madrid Madrid (city) Madrid (city) Madrid (Spain) Madrid (Spain) Madrid City Madrid City Madrid Codex Madrid Conference on Queueing Theory Madrid de los Austrias Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex

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These piles of clay, like madrepore (1) launched upon the dark waters of the Styx for an uncertain after- life, these altars or recumbent statues due to leave for a long journey seem to question us before the last great leap, they are saying goodbye to us with soothing words.

Terres Extremes--four artists by Batlle, Michel / Ceramics Art & Perception

The hero, a poet revolutionary, as a result of some explorations among the poorest of London, suffers a bout of brain fever, in which he has a most peculiar dream: I was at the lowest point of created life; a madrepore rooted to the rock, fathoms below the tide-mark .

Charles Kingsley: divine love, divine order by Derbyshire, John / New Criterion

In these same works, Consolo also recovers from oblivion the ravages of the post World War II modernization on Catania, Avola, Palermo, Caltagirone, Trapani, Gibellina, Noto, Messina, Siracusa, Milazzo, Melilli, Priolo, Augusta, Licata, and especially Gela: Da quei pozzi, da quelle ciminiere sopra templi e necropoli, da quei sottosuoli d'ammassi di madrepore e di ossa, di tufi scanalati, cocci dipinti, dall'acropoli sul colle difesa da muraglie, dalla spiaggia aperta a ogni sbarco .

Vincenzo Consolo and the postmodern writing of melancholy by Bouchard, Norma / Italica

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