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Kōrero: Sea floor

Lace coral

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Lace coral

Lace corals belong to a group of animals called bryozoans, which are tiny and form encrusting or erect colonies on the sea floor. Bryozoans are particularly common around the Three Kings Islands, and in Foveaux Strait.

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Kim Westerskov

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Ashley Rowden, Sea floor – Life on the continental shelf, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/8950/lace-coral (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ashley Rowden, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.