珊瑚状的

Patterns in Nature: Coral Star coral polyps open in search of food near Little Cayman Island.

意译：珊瑚在自然界的模式。星状珊瑚虫张开为了寻找食品在靠近小鳄鱼岛。

Star coral polyps open in search of food near Little Cayman Island.

意译：珊瑚在自然界的模式。星状珊瑚虫张开为了寻找食品在靠近小鳄鱼岛。

Arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda; dendriform sponges .

百慕大群岛海上发现的树状珊瑚；树状海绵。

Built to feed exclusively on corals like this spindly gorgonian, a translucent 1.7-inch-long (4.3-centimeter-long) Phyllodesmium iriomotense houses its branching digestive gland within tentacle-like cerata—outgrowths the animal can shed if under attack.

图中这条1.7英寸(4.3厘米)长的海蛞蝓学名为Phyllodesmium iriomotense，专以珊瑚为食，如图中这种细长的柳珊瑚。它将它生长着枝条形消化腺的触手状露腮依附在珊瑚上，一旦遭到攻击它能蜕去这些露腮来逃生。

Coral found off the coast of Bermuda; dendriform sponges.

百慕大群岛海上发现的树状珊瑚；树状海绵。

The probability of finding synchronously releasing colonies is much lower between species than within species. And in branch form Millepora, the probabiliy of finding synchronously releasing colonies is much lower between area than within area.

另外在同一地点的三种火珊瑚释出水母体的日期甚少相同，而且种间群体同步释放水母体的机率比种内低；在地点比较上，枝状火珊瑚在同一地点内的同步释放机率比在地点间的机率高。

Early sex change of solitary snails can explain the small size of females on branching Porites in contract to the massive Porites.

推测在分枝状微孔珊瑚上紫口珊瑚螺大部分是单独存在其变性时间未受到其它雌螺的影响，因而造成较小个体的雌螺进而产生较差的生殖能力。

Radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms.

放射状对称的动物，囊状身体覆有刺样结构的触须，只有一个开口；它们以珊瑚和水母的形式出现。

After the Precambrian Era, such marine invertebrate animal as trilobites, achiopods, nautiloids, horn corals, honeycomb corals and twiglike bryozoans were abundant during the Palaeozoic Era.

在前寒武纪之后的古生代，是无脊椎动物的繁衍时期，例如三叶虫、腕足类、头足类、角状珊瑚、蜂巢珊瑚和苔藓动物。

Anchor coral, also called hammer coral, have anchor-shaped ends to their tentacles.

锚珊瑚，又称为锤珊瑚，有锚状成形它们的触角。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。