Main skeletal component of sclerites

ID: 598

Class: Biomechanical

Description:

The CaCO3 polymorph present in sclerites (mostly calcite but Aragonite and Vaterite in some species)

Standards:

• Category (cat) default

Methodologies:

• Energy dispersive spectroscopy
• Raman spectroscopy
• X-radiography (densitometer)

Editor: Daniel Gomez Gras (contact)

Observations

Anthoptilum grandiflorum

• 258650

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Antillogorgia acerosa

• 258641

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Antillogorgia bipinnata

• 258642

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Balticina finmarchica

• 259395

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Corallium rubrum

• 298831

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Eunicea flexuosa

• 258644

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Eunicella albicans

• 258587

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Eunicella cavolini

• 258672

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Eunicella microthela

• 258585

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Eunicella singularis

• 258673

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Eunicella tricoronata

• 258586

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Gorgonia ventalina

• 258635

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Leptogorgia barbadensis

• 258636

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Leptogorgia cardinalis

• 258640

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Leptogorgia palma

• 258588

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Leptogorgia virgulata

• 258639

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Muricea muricata

• 258643

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Ovabunda macrospiculata

• 256302

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Vaterite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Paramuricea clavata

• 298753

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Pennatula aculeata

• 259396

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Plexaurella grisea

• 258638

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Plexaurella nutans

• 258637

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Sclerophytum polydactylum

• 258481

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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• 258481

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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Umbellula encrinus

• 258649

  Main skeletal component of sclerites

  Calcite (CaCO3) (cat)

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