Cyphastrea salae Cyphastrea salae

Cyphastrea salae is commonly referred to as Cyphastrea salae. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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AphiaID:: 987119

Scientific:: Cyphastrea salae
German:: Großpolypige Steinkoralle
English:: Cyphastrea Salae

Category:: Coraux durs LPS

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) > Cyphastrea (Genus) > salae (Species)
Initial determination:: Baird, Hoogenboom & Huang, 2017

Occurrence:: Australia, French Polynesia, Japan, Lord Howe Island, New South Wales (Australia), Tasman Sea, the Society Islands
Marine Zone:: Supratidal (Supralitoral), spray water area (splash water area) above the tidal influence where the influence of the sea clearly outweighs that of the land.
Sea depth:: 1 - 18 Meter
Habitats:: Lagoons
Size:: up to 19.69" (50 cm)
Temperature:: °F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C)
Food:: Copepods, Dissolved inorganic substances) f.e.NaCL,CA, Mag, K, I.P, CO2, Dissolved organic substances, Zooplankton, Zooxanthellae / Light
Difficulty:: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully
Offspring:: Possible to breed
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Appendix II ((commercial trade possible after a safety assessment by the exporting country))

Red List:

Data deficient (DD)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

More related species in this lexicon:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2017-06-16 09:21:47
Last edit:: 2026-04-27 08:30:57

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Baird, Hoogenboom & Huang, 2017

Source:
Baird AH, Hoogenboom MO, Huang D (2017) Cyphastrea salae, a new species of hard coral from Lord Howe Island, Australia (Scleractinia, Merulinidae). ZooKeys 662: 49-66. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.662.11454

Open access article (Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0)

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) > Cyphastrea (Genus) > Cyphastrea salae (Species)

External links

A new species of hard coral from the World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island, Australia (en). Abgerufen am 21.06.2023.
Densities of the endolithic bivalve Lithophaga lessepsiana (Vaillant, 1865) in Pocillopora damicornis, Solitary Islands Marine Park, northern NSW, Australia (en). Abgerufen am 27.06.2023.
Erstbeschreibung Cyphastrea salae (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 27.04.2026.
Review of Coral Taxonomy, Evolution and Diversity by John E. N. Veron, Mary G. Stafford-Smith, Lyndon M. DeVantier and Emre Turak (en). Abgerufen am 29.04.2026.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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