Coral Reef Food Web Consumers- Producers- A B с Grazers fishes, urchins, snails, chitons From other communities (estuaries, subtidal, especially mangroves and seagrass beds) corals Seaweeds, coralline algae, photosynthetic bacteria sea urchins zooplankton Predators fishes, squids, snails Detritus feeders sea cucumbers, worms, amphipods, soft corals Coral and coral mucus feeders fishes, sea stars, crabs Detritus Herbivory Predation Detritus feeding or export Contribution to detritus pool Plankton feeders fishes, sea fans, feather stars. Corals/Zooxanthellae Plankton

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