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Crania fell off, the surface of the attached valve must have remained exposed long enough to allow of the growth of the whole corraline, since corallines do not live imbedded in mud.
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It follows that, after the upper valve of the Crania fell off, the surface of the attached valve must have remained exposed long enough to allow of the growth of the whole corraline, since corallines do not live imbedded in mud.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909
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It follows that, after the upper valve of the Crania fell off, the surface of the attached valve must have remained exposed long enough to allow of the growth of the whole corraline, since corallines do not live imbedded in mud.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The second part may have been some corraline or madrepore growing in shallow water, the coriaccous part of which, and the animals residing in the cells, may have resembled the bark and leaves of a plant.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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Some problems that some corraline algae have is having space to grow.
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Another important thing that corraline algae do is that they manufacture chemicals that help provoke metamorphosis in some marine animals.
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One thing that may happen when these two corraline algae collide is that both of them may stop growing.
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This is a bad thing if they stop growing because one job that corraline algae have is helping keep coral reefs grow and helps hold them together.
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Besides that, another thing that may happen to them is that one corraline algae will try to grow over the other.
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Many small marine invertebrates use the corraline algae as a means of obtaining food and if they are destroyed then the animals will not be able to get the food that they need.
travismcdermott commented on the word corraline
1543 TRAHERON Vigo's Chirurg. (1586) 436 Coraline, corolina, is thought to be Brion, which is mosse growing to stones in the sea, and killeth the worms of young children.
May 9, 2008