20 – Hexacorals 2: Reef-building or Hard Corals
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(A)
Figure 20.3 Reproductive cycles in corals. A, cycle in brooding species; B, cycle in hermaphroditic broadcast-spawning
species. Other variations such as broadcast spawning in gonochoric species, occur in some corals. (Image adapted from
Wallace and Aw 2000.)
(B)