Coral Mystery pt X Biology br Dott.ssa Margherita Superchi

Coral Reproduction The genital organs of coral are located inside the polyps and they have different genders in the sense that there are both male and female colonies. In some cases we also noted the presence of hermaphrodite colonies, created by  the fusion of two colonies. The maturing of the...

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Coral Mystery pt IX Biology by Dott.ssa Margherita Superchi

They also studied the “foods” preferred by the polyp colonies. And do you know what they like to eat? Shrimp! Naturally, tiny, microscopic shrimp contained in the plankton! Today we can say that we know much more. But let’s get back to the structure of the polyp. The polyp is the structural unit of...

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Coral Mystery pt.VIII Biology by Dott.ssa Margherita Superchi

 This is its identification card: scientific name:    Corallium rubrum phylum:         Cnidaria class:         Anthozoa (Animal flower: from the Greek     “ἄυθος/anthos” flower, and “ζῷον/zoon” animal) subclass:  ...

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Coral Mystery pt.VII the Study

  The Second Technical Meeting on Red Coral of the Mediterranean was thus held in Torre del Greco at the end of September 1988. the final document states “it is indispensable, for purposes of an exact assessment of coral, to carry out a systematic inquiry and a precise evaluation of the resources...

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Coral Mystery pt.VI the Study

About the second bank, the one discovered in August 1878, Canestrini observes that “it too is approximately 200 meters deep, according to our sounding lines, and is covered in mud, as was evidenced by the dredging performed on site. It is more extensive than the previous one, as the length is approximately...

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Lost Island is back

Hi Divers, Lost Island Project is Back! in these 10 days we have travelled along Europe to learn more about what we could do in our research. We are ready to Rock the Bank Graham! Stay with us! Enj...

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Coral Mystery pt.V the Study

We have one incontrovertible truth: in 13 seasons of fishing, from 1875 to 1886, 14 million kilos of coral were torn from the sea. Yes, you heard right: fourteen million kilos!We know something else: this coral was different from all others, of an inferior quality, so writes in his report to the Minister,...

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Coral Mystery pt.IV the Study

Looking at it from the outside, objectively and with no emotional involvement (exactly the opposite of my own reactions), it becomes immediately obvious that many rushed to grab the coral, to plunder indiscriminately, but few, very few, ever asked themselves why this coral was there, in such great...

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Coral Mystery pt.III the History

Almost 130 years have passed from the facts narrated. What really struck me when I first began to study documents and to investigate the subject was that, wherever I went, wherever I looked, in web sites, papers or books on Sciacca and its coral, written by the Saccensi – as the people of Sciacca...

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