Madrepores (which must not be mistaken for corals) have a tissue lined with a calcareous crust, and the modifications of its structure have induced M.
These walls are specially the work of those madrepores known as milleporas, porites, madrepores, and astraeas.
The whole are easily detached, and their interior is filled with fossil madrepores and cellepores.
Among the limestone formations we must distinguish those which are essentially subordinate to volcanic tufas* from those which appear to be the work of madrepores and other zoophytes.
The polyps of the madrepores resemble flowers when their upper disc is expanded and their feelers are out in the water.
Corals and Madrepores first claim our attention, because they occupy the lowest place, with the exception of sponges, in the animal scale!
The physiology of the growth of the skeleton, both in the Madrepores and the Coral, is the same.
Astraeans, Porites, Maeandrinas, and Madrepores were represented by exactly the same Species seventy thousand years ago as they are now.
The lime which they need abounds in the sea; so abounds that her madrepores build islands of it, and are at this moment building whole continents.
In the dark lower hall the Madrepores serve as the base of the more and more living world that rises, stage above stage, above.
The gigantic Iridacne, moors so fast by that cable, that the Madrepores mistake it for an islet, build upon it, envelope it, and strangle it.
The millepores were first separated from the madrepores by Linnæus, along with a great number of species distinguished by the minuteness of their pores or polypiferous cells (Fig.
The Madrepores are remarkable for the calcareous crust which always surrounds their tissue, and determines the formation of their polypidom.
The madrepores abound in all intertropical seas, taking a considerable part in the constitution of the reefs which form the coral and madreporic islands so conspicuous in the ocean.
The madrepores exhibiting their greatest vitality at the points most exposed to the fury of the waves, it will be near the outer edge of the reef that the development will be most rapid.
Nevertheless some of the species were very numerous in the Cretaceous period, and even find representatives in the Silurian period; it is this group in which Madrepores of great size are found.
Of them you must read for yourself in Mr. Gosse's book; in the meanwhile he shall tell you something of the beautiful Madrepores themselves.
These walls were the express achievements of madrepores known by the names fire coral, finger coral, star coral, and stony coral.
The madrepores are among the most common of the reef-builders.
The madrepores are pink, yellow, green, brown, and purple.
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