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Plants
Plants
Seaweed
Red seaweed and green seaweed are abundant compared to brown seaweeds found in coral reef.
Red Algae
The algae is important for the growth of coral reefs.
Kelp
Kelps are large brown algae.
Seagrass
There are only 60 species of seagrass in the world.
Animals
Animals
Sponges
Sponges are important inhabitants of coral reef ecosystem and contributes a lot.
Butterfly Fish
Butterfly fish live in coral reefs of the Western Atlantic Ocean
Clownfish
Clownfish can be seen everywhere in the Great Barrier Reef and they live inside stingy tentacles.
Moon Jellyfish
They are found in surfaces of open ocean and can grow to 8 inches.
Lionfish
Lionfish are native to coral reefs in tropical water of South Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Stingrays
Stingrays are common in the Great Barrier Reef and mostly live underneath corals or near reefs.
Protist
Protist
Plankton
Plankton can be common food for organisms in coral reef ecosystem. Most all organisms have their own adaptations to capture plankton.
Endolith
Endolithic algae living inside skeletons of living corals are exposed to very low light intensities.
Algae
Algae makes oxygen and helps coral to remove wastes.
Saprotroph
Saprotroph is organism that feeds on nonliving organic matter.
Bacteria
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
The bacteria plays important role in coral reef ecosystem by forming components of epiphytic.
Phormidium
Phormidium is a genus of filamentous.
Thalassemias
Thalassomonas is a genus of bacteria from the family Colwelliaceae
Kiloniellales
It is bacteria with the sceintific name and rank of order.
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