(17) Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke dreams that he "was at the lowest point of created life; a
madrepore rooted to the rock, fathoms below the tide-mark ...
On the coast of Africa, and especially off the Canary Islands, the community has a bathymetric distribution similar to that in the Mediterranean, although between 197-394 ft (60-120 m) depth there is a similar structural base, in which the dominant upright species are red
madrepore Dendropyhyllia ramea, the black coral Antipathes wollastoni, and the zooantharian Gerardia savaglia.
198 Black-band disease is a consequence of eutrophication of the waters of
madrepore reefs.
the box, gazing down upon the nameless, collective
madrepores of
El 12 de noviembre de 1756 envio a Marsella una caja grande con
madrepores, conchas y semillas frescas desde St.
(6) Dewe Gorode, L'Epave (Noumea:
Madrepores, 2005).
Cette royaute sensible (...) n'est, je crois, partagee pleinement de temps e autre que par les bouquets absolus offerts du fonds des mers par les alcyonaires
madrepores. L'inanime touche ici de si pros l'anime que l'imagination est libre de se jouer a l'infini sur des formes d'apparence toute minerale...
