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Eunicea fusca Gorgonian, Doughnut Sea Rod

Eunicea fusca is commonly referred to as Gorgonian, Doughnut Sea Rod. 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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Foto: Bocas Del Toro, Panama


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lexID:
13159 
AphiaID:
283242 
Scientific:
Eunicea fusca 
German:
Gorgonie, Doughnut-Meeresrute 
English:
Gorgonian, Doughnut Sea Rod 
Category:
Gorgones 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Plexauridae (Family) > Eunicea (Genus) > fusca (Species) 
Initial determination:
Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 
Occurrence:
Guadeloupe, Bermuda, Costa Rica, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., West-Atlantic Ocean 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
3 - 30 Meter 
Size:
11.81" - 19.69" (30cm - 50cm) 
Temperature:
13,5 °F - 27,4 °F (13,5°C - 27,4°C) 
Food:
Dissolved inorganic substances) f.e.NaCL,CA, Mag, K, I.P, CO2, Dissolved organic substances, Zooxanthellae / Light 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Least concern (LC)  
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
More related species
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2020-09-29 14:42:23 

Info

The horn coral Eunicea fusca lives in protected reef areas with medium wave load in the Caribbean.
The coral forms quite slender branches with a diameter between 2.5 - 3.5 mm, the tips of the branches are sometimes slightly nodular.

Colour: black-grey to ochre; polyps brown

Reproduction: asexual reproduction

The coral does not come specifically to the specialised trade.

External links

  1. SeaLifeBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute-Digital File Manager (en). Abgerufen am 29.09.2020.
  3. South Florida Octocorals (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Foto: Bocas Del Toro, Panama
Foto: Bocas Del Toro, Panama
Foto: Bocas Del Toro, Panama

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