SPS Anatomy Terms Help

[Shadowramy]

Not sure if this is the place, but I am studing the Veron & Wallace information on coral identification and there are a couple words I am not understanding, if someone could lend a hand it would be helpful.

When defining the coenosteum of a coral, not understanding the following:

costate
reticulo-costate
reticultate

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Shadowramy]

anyone??

 

[inwall75]

this will help

http://www.forestalsfish.com/Corals/Coralworkshop.html

 

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[Shadowramy]

Nope doesnt tell what there terms mean, it is an incomplete class

 

[not_sponsored]

I believe it's costae, and they are the radial elements that form the radial corallite or the fingerprint looking lines in this pic-

And reticulo just means "netlike" so I assume it's when the fingerprint like lines look like a net for reticulo-costae

not sure on the last one, maybe you misspelled reticulate

 

[Shadowramy]

I believe that is the Coenosteal, "The skeletal material deposited between the radials and the corallites, which contain the densely arranged spinnules throughout the “body” of the coral."

The costate could be the name of the ridges it forms??? Therefore
reticultate would mean a netlike pattern???

 

[greenbean36191]

Coenosteum is the skeleton between polyps.

Costate means the ridges that form that part of the skeleton are arranged in parallel rows.

Reticulate means they form a net-like pattern.

Reticulo-costate is somewhere in the middle when you can't figure out how to put it into either of the other groups. This is part of what makes trying to identify corals so much fun.

 

[acrodave]

no kiddin and the fact they will change shape based on water flow