Name - Heteropsammia cochlea

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:172266 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Heteropsammia cochlea (Spengler 1781)

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Recent Publications

• A hermit crab living in association with a mobile scleractinian coral, Heteropsammia cochlea.
• A new species of hermit crab, Diogenes heteropsammicola (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae), replaces a mutualistic sipunculan in a walking coral symbiosis.
• Selective consumption of sacoglossan sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) by scleractinian corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa).
• High-resolution imaging sheds new light on a multi-tier symbiotic partnership between a 'walking' solitary coral, a sipunculan, and a bivalve from East Africa.
• Discovery of the dendrophylliid scleractinian Heteropsammia cochlea (Spengler, 1781) in Halimeda bioherms of the Northern Great Barrier Reef.

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