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Eunicea mammosa Swollen-Knob-Candelbrum, Mammillated eunicea

Eunicea mammosais commonly referred to as Swollen-Knob-Candelbrum, Mammillated eunicea. Difficulty in the aquarium: Only for advanced aquarists. A aquarium size of at least 500 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profilbild Urheber Prof. Dr. Charles G. Messing, (†), USA

Foto: Florida, USA


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lexID:
5835 
AphiaID:
283254 
Scientific:
Eunicea mammosa 
German:
Gorgonie 
English:
Swollen-Knob-Candelbrum, Mammillated Eunicea 
Category:
Sea Fans 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Plexauridae (Family) > Eunicea (Genus) > mammosa (Species) 
Initial determination:
Lamouroux, 1816 
Occurrence:
Belize, Canada , Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, Jamaica, Mexico (East Pacific), Puerto Rico, South America, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, USA, West-Atlantic Ocean 
Sea depth:
0 - 20 Meter 
Size:
7.87" - 11.81" (20cm - 30cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Plankton, Zooplankton 
Tank:
109.99 gal (~ 500L)  
Difficulty:
Only for advanced aquarists 
Offspring:
Possible to breed 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2013-08-04 18:38:44 

Captive breeding / propagation

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

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Lamouroux, 1816

Common on reefs at any depth.
Colonies tend to branch near the base resembling candelabra. Polyps extend from very long tubes, giving the colony a prickly or knobby appearance. Several species in the Tropical Western Atlantic.
Text source: Keoki Stender, Hawaiii

Host of:
Enalcyonium euniceae Stock, 1973 and the Coppepod Copepode
Orecturus antillensis Varela, 2011.

Scientific paper

  1. ChemInform Abstract: Uprolides D-G. Part 2. A Rare Family of 4,7-Oxabridged Cembranolides from the Caribbean Gorgonian Eunicea mammosa., A. D. RODRIGUEZ; J. J. SOTO; I. C. PINA, 1996
  2. The structure of euniolide, a new cembranoid diterpene from the caribbean gorgonians eunicea succinea and eunicea mammosa, José J. Morales; José R. Espina; Abimael D. Rodriguez, 1990
  3. Isolation of the elusive (−)-germacrene-a from the gorgonian, eunicea mammosa chemistry of coelenterates. XVIII., Alfred J. Weinheimer; William W. Youngblood; Paul H. Washecheck; Tom K.B. Karns; Leon S. Ciereszko, 1970

External links

  1. Harald´s Gorgonien-Lexikon (de) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Homepage Keoki Stender, Marine Life Photographie (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. Interactive Identification Guide to South Florida Octocorals (en). Abgerufen am 31.12.2020.
  4. SeaLifeBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  5. The shallow-water octocorallia of the West Indian region : a manual for marine biologists (Seite 132ff, hier als Eunicea (Euniceopsis) clavigera pec.nov. (en). Abgerufen am 31.12.2020.
  6. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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