. Cold-water Coral Reefs: out of sight - no longer out of mind. UNEP-WCMC Biodiversity Series 22. Cold-water coral reefs. Figure 5: Global distribution of live Solenosmilia variabilis UNEP-WCMC, sourced from A Freiwald. from various sources deep (Reed. 2002al. This means that an Oculina colony m thick IS about a century old. The deep-water form of 0. varicosa occurs from A5 to about 100 m depth, has translucent soft tissue and lacks symbionts. The colonies are much taller and more fragile. Over a distance of 167 km along the eastern Florida Shelf the deep-water Oculina is an important reef
. Cold-water Coral Reefs: out of sight - no longer out of mind. UNEP-WCMC Biodiversity Series 22. Cold-water coral reefs. Figure 5: Global distribution of live Solenosmilia variabilis UNEP-WCMC, sourced from A Freiwald. from various sources deep (Reed. 2002al. This means that an Oculina colony m thick IS about a century old. The deep-water form of 0. varicosa occurs from A5 to about 100 m depth, has translucent soft tissue and lacks symbionts. The colonies are much taller and more fragile. Over a distance of 167 km along the eastern Florida Shelf the deep-water Oculina is an important reef constructor that produces coral ridges and pinnacles 3 to 35 m high (Figure 4; Reed, 2002a). Enallopsammia profunda Enallopsammia contains four valid species with E. profunda as the major framework-constructing species (Rogers, 19991. This coral forms massive dendroid colonies, up to 1 m thick. The species is endemic to the western Atlantic and ranges from the Antilles in the Caribbean to off Massachusetts at depths from U6 m to 1 7A8 m (Cairns, 19791. It is often associated with L. pertusa. M. ocuiata and Solenosmilia variabilis IReed. 2002al. It is known from more than 200 banks on the outer eastern edge of the Blake Plateau, off North Carolina, at depths of 6^0 m to 869 m. Another concentration of Enallopsammia-Lophelia reefs has been located nearby along the Florida-Hatteras Slope at depths of 500 to 800 m with a maximum relief of 97 m from Miami to South Carolina (Reed, 2002al. Solenosmilia variabilis The biology and ecology of Solenosmilia variabilis is unstudied. Like Lophetia. it forms densely branched colonies. This species has a generally cosmopolitan distribution, but it has not been found in Antarctic waters nor in the North or east Pacific (Figure 5; Cairns, 1995). Solenosmilia occurs between depths of 220 and 2 165 m and IS often found associated with L. pertusa. Madrepora spp. and E. profunda. Dense Solenosmilia aggregations frequently occur on the summits of th
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