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Pacifigorgia eximia Gorgonian

Pacifigorgia eximiais commonly referred to as Gorgonian. Difficulty in the aquarium: Experts only! Very hard to keep. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
14336 
AphiaID:
520687 
Scientific:
Pacifigorgia eximia 
German:
Gorgonie 
English:
Gorgonian 
Category:
Sea Fans 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Gorgoniidae (Family) > Pacifigorgia (Genus) > eximia (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Verrill, ), 1868 
Occurrence:
Columbia, Costa Rica, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Gulf of California, Panama 
Sea depth:
0 - 25 Meter 
Size:
7.87" - 9.06" (20cm - 23cm) 
Temperature:
80.6 °F - 82.4 °F (27°C - 28°C) 
Food:
azooxanthellat, nonphotosynthetic, Brine Shrimp Nauplii, Copepods, Cyclop-Eeze, Dustfood , Plankton 
Difficulty:
Experts only! Very hard to keep 
Offspring:
Possible to breed 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2021-12-26 13:13:03 

Captive breeding / propagation

The offspring of Pacifigorgia eximia are possible. Unfortunately, the number of offspring is not large enough to cover the demand of the trade. If you are interested in Pacifigorgia eximia, please ask your dealer for offspring. If you already own Pacifigorgia eximia, try breeding yourself. This will help to improve the availability of offspring in the trade and to conserve natural stocks.

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The photo shows two colonies of Pacifigorgia eximia, on the left with retracted polyps, on the right with fully expanded polyps.
It is very well imaginable that drifting plankton gets caught in the nearly impenetrable network of branches and finest polyps and is subsequently digested by the polyps.
Another prerequisite for the existence of the coral, which settles on rocky substratum rocky substratum is a high-energy (plankton-rich) zone in a turbid rocky reef with fine mud sediments with fine mud sediments
Fans of a single frond or with two or three secondary fans.

The color of live gorgonians ranges from deep red to a bright burnt orange or yellow.

Synonyms:
Gorgonia eximia (Verrill, 1868)
Leptogorgia eximia (Verrill, 1868)
Litigorgia eximia Verrill, 1868 (original combination)

External links

  1. A revision of the genus Pacifigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae), Seite 280 (en). Abgerufen am 26.12.2021.
  2. Erstbeschreibung Pacifigorgia eximia, Seite 390 (als Litigorgia eximia Verrill, 1868) (en). Abgerufen am 26.12.2021.
  3. Gorgonias (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae) de las aguas someras del Pacífico Norte de Costa Rica (es). Abgerufen am 26.12.2021.
  4. Isolation of the fungal pathogen in gorgonian corals at the Tropical Eastern Pacific (en). Abgerufen am 26.12.2021.
  5. New records of the genera Leptogorgia, Pacifigorgia and Eugorgia (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae) from Ecuador, with a description of a new species (en). Abgerufen am 26.12.2021.
  6. Octocorals and Antipatharians in the Mesophotic Rocky Reefs of Colombian Pacific (Eastern Tropical Pacific) (en). Abgerufen am 26.12.2021.
  7. Octocorals from Costa Rica: The genus Pacifigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae) (en). Abgerufen am 26.12.2021.
  8. Pacifigorgia marviva (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) a new species from Coiba National Park, Pacific Panama (en). Abgerufen am 26.12.2021.
  9. SeaLifeBase (multi). Abgerufen am 26.12.2021.
  10. Smithonian Tropical Research Institut (en). Abgerufen am 26.12.2021.
  11. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 26.12.2021.

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