endotheca
Meanings
noun
- The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique transverse septa, one above another.
Word forms
Etymology
From endo- + theca (“the calcareous wall of a corallite”).
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