Paracyathus pulchellus Papillose cup coral

Paracyathus pulchellusis commonly referred to as Papillose cup coral. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

10447 

AphiaID:

135163 

Scientific:

Paracyathus pulchellus 

German:

Becherkoralle 

English:

Papillose Cup Coral 

Category:

Stony Corals LPS 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family) > Paracyathus (Genus) > pulchellus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Philippi, ), 1842 

Occurrence:

Tunesien, Suriname, Straße von Gibralta, Barbados, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean), Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Azores, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada , Columbia, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Florida, Grenada, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Israel, Jamaica, Madeira, Martinique, Mauritius, Montserrat, Morocco, North Atlantic Ocean, Northern Africa, Panama, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Spain, Sri Lanka, The Aegan Sea (Mediterranean), The Bahamas, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, The Gulf of Guinea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, Venezuela, West-Atlantic Ocean, Western Indian Ocean 

Sea depth:

5 - 3001866 Meter 

Size:

up to 1.18" (3 cm) 

Temperature:

4,2 °F - 78.8 °F (4,2°C - 26°C) 

Food:

Amphipods, azooxanthellat, nonphotosynthetic, Copepods, Zooplankton 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

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

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Paracyathus andersoni
• Paracyathus arcuatus
• Paracyathus cavatus
• Paracyathus conceptus
• Paracyathus coronatus
• Paracyathus darwinensis
• Paracyathus ebonensis
• Paracyathus fulvus
• Paracyathus humilis
• Paracyathus indicus
• Paracyathus lifuensis
• Paracyathus molokensis
• Paracyathus montereyensis
• Paracyathus parvulus
• Paracyathus porcellanus
• 
  Paracyathus profundus
  Großpolyige Steinkoralle, Kelchkoralle
• Paracyathus pruinosus
• 
  Paracyathus pulchellus
  Becherkoralle
• Paracyathus rotundatus
• 
  Paracyathus stearnsii
  Großpolypige Steinkoralle
• Paracyathus stokesii
• Paracyathus vittatus
• Alle anzeigen

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2017-02-18 13:14:05 

Last edit:

2017-02-18 14:04:16 

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