The newly discovered three types of reef corals in Nanji Sea are extremely high in growth environment.

Zhejiang News Client Reporter Wang Zifang Video Shen Chaoqi Sharing Alliance Pingyang Station Xu Yuanzhu

"The three new types of reef corals found in the sea of ​​Nanji Islands are all national second -level protection animals." Recently, Chi Ruichang of the Marine Environment Department of the Pingyang County Ecological Environment Bureau shared this good news. This is the preliminary achievement of the South Sugs Islands Underwater Ecosystem Research Project. After morphological analysis and gene sequencing identification. The three types of reef corals discovered this time are wrinkled star corals, transparent corner cup corals, and wrinkled gyro corals.

Wrinkle star coral

Lu Baoqiang, a senior engineer of Wenzhou University Student Institute of Technology, told reporters that the reef corals have high requirements for the growth environment: it grows in areas of about 15 meters deep in water, the best temperature is 20-28 ° C, and the best salinity is 34-37 ‰. Also It requires good sea flow and waves, low nutritional salt, low -sedimentary environment and stable base quality.

"The main growth of reef corals is mainly growing in the tropical area. This discovery has expanded the distribution of reef corals in my country. According to the introduction, the emergence of reef corals appeared in the north of the north of the Northern Cancer. In the context of global warming, exploring its survival conditions has important ecological significance.

Wrinkle folding gyro coral

"The first reef corals found in July this year were very surprised. At that time, it was seen by the diver when diving photography." Lu Baoqiang told reporters, but the reef corals in Nanji Sea are currently distributed, and they are relatively small and they are relatively small. It has not yet formed a stable coral reef ecosystem.

"As early as 2007, Nanji discovered reef coral for the first time, but limited to the technical level and conditions at that time, only a small piece of reef coral was found on a base rock at low tide, and it was not set." Wenzhou Ecological Environment Bureau Pingyang According to the relevant person in charge of the branch bureau, the coral reef ecosystem is also known as the underwater "tropical rain forest" and is one of the world's most biological diversity ecosystems.

Photo Conferry of the Transparent Cape Coral Research Group

It is understood that the research project of the submarine ecosystem of the Nanji Islands is a more comprehensive and scientific underwater ecosystem census. The survey scope includes Nanji Dasha, Huoyu, and Chaiyu. With shallow water area. The investigation process includes low -tide area inspections, underwater drones sweeping, and divers submarine photography. This new discovery has also expanded the distribution of reef corals in my country.

(The pictures are all provided by the research team of Nanji Islands undercover ecosystem research project)

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