On Behavior of Scleractinians
Single and colonial six-rayed corals - scleractinians -turned out to be not so primitive organisms as it was once supposed. They have different ways of eating, engage in aggressive struggle for living space, possess unusual ability of polyps to abandon their skeleton and to find a new, more convenient place for attachment to substrate, they reproduce by larvae that are disseminated by currents across the whole ocean and in some species are capable of reversible morphogenesis.