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For example, encrusting algae that lives on a rock (its substrate) can be itself a substrate for.

Geodia gibberosa, commonly known as the white encrusting sponge, is a species of sea sponge found in the Caribbean.

Most colonies probably start as encrusting forms and adopt a branching structure as they grow.

Early fossils are mainly of erect forms, but encrusting forms gradually became dominant.

The colony shapes range from simple encrusting sheets to erect branching and even unattached forms.

typically enrolled, but may be reduced to biserial or uniserial, or may be encrusting with proliferated chambers.

The red encrusting sponge (Clathria oudekraalensis) is a species of sea sponge.

Members of the genus are massive or thickly encrusting colonial corals, either dome-shaped or flat, and a few are foliaceous.

Many are typically encrusting and rock-like, found in marine waters all over the world.

some taxa, they are thought to keep the body surface clear of algae, encrusting organisms, and other debris in conjunction with the ciliated epidermis.

the outer circumference of subcircular encrusting colonies, or at the tips of the branches in ramifying encrusting and bushy erect colonies.

by the common names stick polyp, tree stick polyp, tree anemone, and encrusting stick anemone.

Gelliodes wilsoni, sometimes known as the gray encrusting sponge, is a species of sponge found in shallow water in the Philippines.

portal The order Microconchida is a group of small, spirally-coiled, encrusting fossil "worm" tubes from the class Tentaculita found from the Upper Ordovician.

obscure Northumbrian saint credited with providing the jewel and metalwork encrusting the former treasure binding of the Lindisfarne Gospels.

This evidence can consist of encrusting marine organisms (especially bryozoans, oysters, barnacles, cornulitids.

There are numerous fossil forms with spherical, branching or encrusting skeletons of laminated calcite with vertical pillars between the laminae.

Erythropodium caribaeorum, commonly known as the encrusting gorgonian or encrusting polyps, is a species of soft coral in the family Anthothelidae.

by the author Rothpletz could be symbiotic intergrowths of different encrusting organisms.

Crambe crambe, commonly known as the oyster sponge or orange-red encrusting sponge, is a species of demosponges belonging to the family Crambeidae.

Synonyms:

surface; coat; incrust;

Antonyms:

improperness; impropriety; natural object; understate;