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Fusiform and Needle-shaped Crystals Found on the Skeleton of a Coral, Galaxea fascicularis

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Two kinds of crystals, fusiform and needle-shaped crystals, have been observed on the surface of skeletons of hermatypic corals [1, 2, 3, 4]. Fusiform crystals are found only on the growing edges of distal tips of skeletons. It has been suggested that needle-shaped crystals are deposited on the surface of the fusiform crystals and that further growth and addition of needle-shaped crystals result in parallel bundles of needle-shaped crystals [2, 3]. Tips of these bundles protrude above the surface of the skeleton to form irregular-shaped, fish scale-like fasciculi. However, it is not clear whether the fasciculi are formed only in this manner and are always derived from fusiform crystals.

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  1. Department of Biology, Univeristy of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, 903-01, Japan

    M. Hedaka

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  1. Department of Pathology, The Nippon Dental University School of Dentistry at Tokyo, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102, Japan

    Shoichi Suga (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Department of Oral Anatomy, Meikai Univesity School of Dentistry, Sakado, Saitama, 350-02, Japan

    Hiroshi Nakahara (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Hedaka, M. (1991). Fusiform and Needle-shaped Crystals Found on the Skeleton of a Coral, Galaxea fascicularis . In: Suga, S., Nakahara, H. (eds) Mechanisms and Phylogeny of Mineralization in Biological Systems. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68132-8_23

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