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Meaning of "corallites"
Corallites (noun) - the skeletal cups or tubes formed by coral polyps. They are the individual structures within a coral colony where an individual coral polyp lives. Corallites play a crucial role in the growth and structure of coral reefs, and they are essential for the survival of coral species
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The corallites are subplacoid and are irregularly placed.
The branches contain axial and radial corallites.
Its axial corallites are also tubular.
Their smooth appearance is due to their small corallites.
Its radial corallites are uniformly arranged and sized.
Spines project beneath the corallites.
The corallites are widely spaced and robust.
It has small axial corallites.
The walls of the corallites and the septae are porous.
It grows from an encrusting base on which there are a few corallites.
The corallites are shallow depressions with poorly defined walls.
The costae of different corallites are distinct from one another.
The corallites are usually large relative to different types of coral.
Its branches sometimes divide and contain axial and radial corallites.
The walls of the corallites and the septa are porous.
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Corallites are small.
The lobes are one-sided with corallites only on one surface.
The corallites are evenly spread.
During the day they are retracted back into the cup-shaped corallites.
The new corallites tend to be small and make the surface appear more crowded.
The branches occur around one central point, and contain axial and radial corallites.
Corallites are recessed, four to six sided.
Branchlets contain axial corallites on the ends, which are rounded.
The corallites are phaceloid or subplocoid, with one to three centres being linked.
The thick-walled, circular corallites are cerioid or subplocoid.
Its axial corallites protrude from the branches and the radial corallites are tube-shaped.
Encrusting colonies . Branchless, just very crowded corallites.
The radial corallites are immersed in the branches and are small, and have circular openings.
The radial corallites usually form neat rows, sometimes being long and slender and sometimes appressed.
Axial corallites are located at the end of branchlets, and are tube-shaped.
