Spawning at FGBNMS
Coral Health and Monitoring Program
coral at aoml.noaa.gov
Fri Sep 13 09:10:44 EDT 1996
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:42:15 -0400
From: CBAggie at aol.com
To: coral at aoml.noaa.gov
Subject: Re: Octocoral Spawn (fwd)
On the night of Sept 3, 4, &5 A mass spawning event was again observed at
the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. In addition the the many
colonies of Diploria and Montastrea species obsreved releasing gametes, a
single small (approx. 15cm diameter) colony of Porites astreoides was
observed slowly releasing a milky white substance similar to the sperm
release previously seen in male M. cavernosa species. This seems somewhat
unexpected, as I understand P. astreoides to be a brooding species. Could
someone shed some light on this for me.
Carl Beaver
Center for Coastal Studies
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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