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Sclerophytum fungoides Soft Coral

Sclerophytum fungoidesis commonly referred to as Soft 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.

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lexID:
14948 
AphiaID:
209978 
Scientific:
Sclerophytum fungoides 
German:
Weichkoralle 
English:
Soft Coral 
Category:
Soft Corals 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Octocorallia (Class) > Malacalcyonacea (Order) > Sarcophytidae (Family) > Sclerophytum (Genus) > fungoides (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Thomson & Henderson, ), 1906 
Occurrence:
Hong Kong, Bismarck Archipelago, China, East Africa, Indonesia, Java, Kenya, Madagascar, Mayotte, Micronesia, Mozambique, New Caledonia, Palau, Sumatra, Western Indian Ocean 
Sea depth:
3 - 7 Meter 
Size:
up to 19.69" (50 cm) 
Temperature:
75.2 °F - 84.2 °F (24°C - 29°C) 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
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in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2024-04-24 15:40:30 

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Sclerophytum fungoides is a common soft coral, it has characteristic flattened lobes.
The coral can be quite expansive.

Color information or data on the size of the soft coral is lacking, the vast majority of literature is concerned with the geographic occurrence of the species.

Synonym: Sinularia fungoides Thomson & Henderson, 1906

External links

  1. Beitrage zu einer Revision der Alcyoniiden. Die Gattung Sinularia (de). Abgerufen am 01.07.2022.
  2. Checklist of Marine Biota of China Seas , Seite 336 (en). Abgerufen am 01.07.2022.
  3. Corals of the South-west Indian Ocean: VI. The Alcyonacea (Octocorallia) of Mozambique, with a discussion on soft coral distribution on south equatorial East African reefs (en). Abgerufen am 01.07.2022.
  4. Environmental variabilities and the distribution of octocorals and black corals in Hong Kong. (en). Abgerufen am 01.07.2022.
  5. Erstbeschreibung Sinularia fungoides Seite 417 (en). Abgerufen am 01.07.2022.
  6. Octocorallia from north-western Madagascar (Part II) , Seite 33 (en). Abgerufen am 01.07.2022.
  7. Octocorallia from the Bismarck Sea (part II) (en). Abgerufen am 01.07.2022.
  8. SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SOFT CORALS (OCTOCORALLIA) IN MERAK ISLANDS, WEST JAVA (en). Abgerufen am 01.07.2022.
  9. The genus Sinularia (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) at Palau, Micronesia (en). Abgerufen am 01.07.2022.
  10. The marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa, from collections made by Cyril Crossland, M.A., B.Sc., F.Z.S., in the years 1901 and 1902 (en). Abgerufen am 01.07.2022.
  11. The Soft Corals of Mayotte (en). Abgerufen am 01.07.2022.
  12. The species compose on and distribuon of macrobenthic communities in the interdal zone of Vietnam (en). Abgerufen am 01.07.2022.
  13. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 01.07.2022.

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