Great job Cwmhiraeth! An awesome article from you as always! I can't resist putting my hands on this.
The lead is good overall. I think adding The individual animals are known as polyps and have a cylindrical body crowned by an oral disc surrounded by a ring of tentacles (from "Soft parts") after the second line in lead would make a lucid start.
The founding polyp settles on the seabed and starts to secrete calcium carbonate to protect its soft body. How about "... secrete calcium carbonate from its base to..."?
Then should the fact about "column" not be included in "Soft parts"? I picked up the "base" fact from the line The base of the polyp secretes the stony material from which the coral skeleton is formed but it seems it is only the base that does the secretion. Sorry if you have mentioned the column fact elsewhere in the article and I have missed it.
Sainsf<^>Talk all words03:52, 2 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Scleractinian corals may be solitary or colonial. Colonies can reach considerable size, consisting of a large number of individual polyps. Is it really required to add this?
Stony corals are generally nocturnal, with the polyps retracting into their skeletons during the day, thus maximising the exposure of the zooxanthallae to the light, but a number of exceptions to this general rule occur Any notable examples?
The biggest problem - Unidentified authors appear everywhere in Classification. For instance Milne Edwards and Haime’s 1857. Who are they? Do add quality information about them.
I like the way images have been related to the text, for instance intratentacular and extratentacular budding have been illustrated very well. But I think images are a bit too many here, so let us do away with the less relevant ones. In my opinion,
Remove the image of Ctenactis echinata, it is too far below to match with the text on the left and not too necessary. Only the Favites image will do for Ecology
For Evolutionary history, shift the rugose corals image a bit upward so as not to interfere with classification, and select only one other relevant fossil than three, preferably the one that is directly related to the text.
Great job Cwmhiraeth! An awesome article from you as always! I can't resist putting my hands on this.
The lead is good overall. I think adding The individual animals are known as polyps and have a cylindrical body crowned by an oral disc surrounded by a ring of tentacles (from "Soft parts") after the second line in lead would make a lucid start.
The founding polyp settles on the seabed and starts to secrete calcium carbonate to protect its soft body. How about "... secrete calcium carbonate from its base to..."?
Then should the fact about "column" not be included in "Soft parts"? I picked up the "base" fact from the line The base of the polyp secretes the stony material from which the coral skeleton is formed but it seems it is only the base that does the secretion. Sorry if you have mentioned the column fact elsewhere in the article and I have missed it.
Sainsf<^>Talk all words03:52, 2 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Scleractinian corals may be solitary or colonial. Colonies can reach considerable size, consisting of a large number of individual polyps. Is it really required to add this?
Stony corals are generally nocturnal, with the polyps retracting into their skeletons during the day, thus maximising the exposure of the zooxanthallae to the light, but a number of exceptions to this general rule occur Any notable examples?
The biggest problem - Unidentified authors appear everywhere in Classification. For instance Milne Edwards and Haime’s 1857. Who are they? Do add quality information about them.
I like the way images have been related to the text, for instance intratentacular and extratentacular budding have been illustrated very well. But I think images are a bit too many here, so let us do away with the less relevant ones. In my opinion,
Remove the image of Ctenactis echinata, it is too far below to match with the text on the left and not too necessary. Only the Favites image will do for Ecology
For Evolutionary history, shift the rugose corals image a bit upward so as not to interfere with classification, and select only one other relevant fossil than three, preferably the one that is directly related to the text.