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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
In taxonomy, any name which conforms to all mandatory provisions of the Code. There are general requirements of publication and date, language, name formation etc. An available name is not necessarily a valid name, as an available name may be in synonymy. Conversely a valid name must always be an available one.
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One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a coral polyp; the calyx.
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Simplest body form of sponges, with canals leading directly from the surrounding water to the interior spongocoel.
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The systematic classification of groups of organisms on the basis of the order of their assumed divergence from ancestral species.
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Wastes (mostly liquid) originating from a community; may be composed of domestic wastewaters and/or industrial discharges.
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A field of quantitative ecology concerned with the numerical analysis of complex ecological data sets. Numerical ecology makes use of mathematical tools from many disciplines in order to analyze multidimensional (multivariate) data .
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