| Item Call Number |
GE00242 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
GE00242 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - GE00242
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| Main Entry |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - Ayala Museum Research Team
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Roadside corals
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ayala Museum Research Team
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| General Note |
- General note - Down southern Cebu, piles of corals line the roads to entice prospective buyers and sightseers. These "flowers of the sea" form walls to the rather dusty and Dumpy roads. Corals are neither plants nor stones or rocks. They are the skeletons of microscopic saltwater animals belonging to the phyllum Coelenterata, class Anthozoa. The common corals, Madreporaria, have limy white skeletons while the others, Gorgonia, red, and Antipataria, black. Others are provided only with tiny needle-like structures for support. Corals are not free to move about since they are attached to the bottom, like a plant. When newly taken from the sea, the mass of skeletal material is covered with the animal matter. When this covering is washed off, only one skeleton is left behind. The animal proper, polyp, has the general appearance of a sea anemone varying in size from a few inches in the solitary forms to much less in the colonial ones. The skeleton is produced by lime-producing cells in the outer parts of the individual animal; thus it appears to be set in a capsule-like receptacle. The individuals in a colony increase usually by producing buds very much like a plant producing stems. They provide a hiding and feeding place for many other sea creatures like the star fish, shells, sea urchins, sea lilies, sea feathers, sponges, anemones, lobsters, and a great number of fishes. Corals are used for decorative purposes. Some kinds, the red and black ones, go to the manufacture of fancy rings, earrings, bracelets, pins, necklaces, and cuff links. But corals pose a constant hazard to navigation. Slowly but continuously, new coral islands are formed so that the Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey constantly searches our seas to look for and mark on charts these new growths. Shallow waters with jutting coral reefs are made known to approaching vessels by a lighthouse or a marker buoy.
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| Additional Physical Form Available Note |
- Additional physical form available note - With prints
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| Immediate Source Of Acquisition Note |
- Source of acquisition - Filipinas Heritage Library
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| Ownership And Custodial History |
- History - Filipinas Heritage Library
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| Subject Chronological Term |
- Chronological term - 1970
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Provinces and cities
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Alegria, Cebu
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| Subject Faceted Topical Term |
- Focus term - 1970
- Focus term - alegria
- Focus term - amrt
- Focus term - cebu
- Focus term - southern cebu
- Focus term - visayas
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