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Spinimuricea atlantica Slender sea fan

Spinimuricea atlanticais commonly referred to as Slender sea fan. Difficulty in the aquarium: Experts only! Very hard to keep. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profilbild Urheber Javier Santiago Caamaño, Spanien

Foto: Ria de Arosa, Spanien, Nord-Ost-Atlantik

/ 25 Meter Tiefe, 2006
Courtesy of the author Javier Santiago Caamaño, Spanien

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lexID:
13525 
AphiaID:
125397 
Scientific:
Spinimuricea atlantica 
German:
Hornkoralle 
English:
Slender Sea Fan 
Category:
Sea Fans 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Plexauridae (Family) > Spinimuricea (Genus) > atlantica (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Johnson, ), 1862 
Occurrence:
Straße von Gibralta, Ghana, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, East-Atlantic Ocean, European Coasts, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Levantine Sea (Mediterranean), Madeira, North Atlantic Ocean, Portugal, Spain, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, West Africa, West-Atlantic Ocean 
Sea depth:
0 - 900 Meter 
Size:
up to 15.75" (40 cm) 
Temperature:
59 °F - 86 °F (15°C - 30°C) 
Food:
Amphipods, azooxanthellat, nonphotosynthetic, Copepods, Invertebrates, Marine snow, Zooplankton 
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:
2021-01-10 16:14:10 

Captive breeding / propagation

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

Info

Very special thanks for the first photos of Spinimuricea atlantica to Javier Santiago Caamaño and Antonio de la Linde, Spain.

Colonies of Spinimuricea atlantica are generally sparsely branched and brownish white and has elongated polyps.

Spinimuricea atlantica differs from Spinimuricea klavereni by being more branched and by the presence of branched sclerites in the coenenchyma.

Spinimuricea atlantica lives on soft soils.

Synonyms:
Acanthogorgia atlantica Johnson, 1862
Echinomuricea atlantica (Johnson, 1862)
Paramuricea atlantica (Johnson, 1862)

External links

  1. EL LITORAL DE GRANADA (es). Abgerufen am 09.01.2021.
  2. EL LITORAL DE GRANADA EL LITORAL DE GRANADA (es). Abgerufen am 07.01.2021.
  3. Mer et littoral - European Marine Life (multi). Abgerufen am 07.01.2021.
  4. Natural history collections as a basis for sound biodiversity assessments: Plexauridae (Octocorallia, Holaxonia) of the Naturalis CANCAP and Tyro Mauritania II expeditions (en). Abgerufen am 07.01.2021.
  5. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.01.2021.

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Foto: Granada, Spanien
Foto: Ria de Arosa, Spanien, Nord-Ost-Atlantik

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