Dr. Karine Marangon
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Where does the name "black coral" come from?
This bushy coral owes its name to its black or brownish inner skeleton.
This skeleton with its fine, flexible branches is covered by a living tissue, which is covered with small spines, max. 0.2 mm.
The coral is black, red, orange, brown, green, yellow or white in color, and the polyps are unilaterally oriented and lack retractable tentacles.
Antipathes lentipinna settles and lives on rocky or coral bottoms.
Tozeuma armatum or Bruun's cleaner shrimp sometimes live in Antipathes lentipinna corals, as does the jewelry ghost pipefish Solenostomus paradoxus.
A symbiotic relationship exists with the barnacle Oxynaspis faroni (Totton, 1940).
Since the coral depends on a permanent catch of zooplankton, it should not be maintained in the aquarium, but should remain in the sea.
This bushy coral owes its name to its black or brownish inner skeleton.
This skeleton with its fine, flexible branches is covered by a living tissue, which is covered with small spines, max. 0.2 mm.
The coral is black, red, orange, brown, green, yellow or white in color, and the polyps are unilaterally oriented and lack retractable tentacles.
Antipathes lentipinna settles and lives on rocky or coral bottoms.
Tozeuma armatum or Bruun's cleaner shrimp sometimes live in Antipathes lentipinna corals, as does the jewelry ghost pipefish Solenostomus paradoxus.
A symbiotic relationship exists with the barnacle Oxynaspis faroni (Totton, 1940).
Since the coral depends on a permanent catch of zooplankton, it should not be maintained in the aquarium, but should remain in the sea.
