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Micrurus fulvius, commonly known as the eastern coral snake, [3] common coral snake, American cobra, [4] and more, is a species of highly venomous coral snake in the family Elapidae .The Elapidae family also contains the cobras and sea snakes. [5] The species is endemic to the southeastern United States. [1]
Cladorhiza Raf. Rhizocorallon Hall in H.B.Ruppius. Corallorrhiza Gagnebin, spelling variation. Corallorhiza, the coralroot, is a genus of flowering plants in the orchid family. Except for the circumboreal C. trifida, [1] the genus is restricted to North America (including Mexico, Central America and the West Indies ).
Staghorn coral. The Staghorn coral ( Acropora cervicornis) is a branching, stony coral, within the Order Scleractinia. It is characterized by thick, upright branches which can grow in excess of 2 meters (6.5 ft) in height and resemble the antlers of a stag, hence the name, Staghorn. [4] It grows within various areas of a reef but is most ...
Coral Triangle. The Coral Triangle ( CT) is a roughly triangular area in the tropical waters around the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste. This area contains at least 500 species of reef-building corals in each ecoregion. [3] The Coral Triangle is located between the Pacific and Indian ...
Scleractinia, also called stony corals or hard corals, are marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria that build themselves a hard skeleton. The individual animals are known as polyps and have a cylindrical body crowned by an oral disc in which a mouth is fringed with tentacles. Although some species are solitary, most are colonial.
Fossil Coral Reef, also known locally as Bradbury Quarry, is a 100-acre (0.40 km 2) abandoned limestone quarry in Le Roy, New York. It contains a well-preserved Middle Devonian coral reef [1] along with rare tabulate and rugose corals, crinoids, gastropods, and trilobites . The site was declared a National Natural Landmark in November 1967. [2]
Coral Ridge Mall is an enclosed super-regional shopping mall located just south of Interstate 80 in Coralville, Iowa. The mall's primary trade area includes Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, and other parts of eastern Iowa. [2] It is owned and managed by Brookfield Properties, which acquired the original developer of the mall, General Growth Properties ...
Coral Edith Browne (23 July 1913 – 29 May 1991) was an Australian-American stage and screen actress. Her extensive theatre credits included Broadway productions of Macbeth (1956), The Rehearsal (1963) and The Right Honourable Gentleman (1965). She won the 1984 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC TV film An Englishman Abroad (1983).