Primnoa pacifica Red tree coral

Profile

lexID:

11572 

Scientific:

Primnoa pacifica 

German:

Resedakoralle 

English:

Red tree coral 

Category:

Sea Fans 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Primnoidae (Family) > Primnoa (Genus) > pacifica (Species) 

Initial determination:

Kinoshita, 1907 

Occurrence:

Westküste USA, Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea, Canada , Eastern Pacific Ocean, Japan, North Pacific (Ocean), Revillagigedo Islands 

Sea depth:

10 - 863 Meter 

Size:

up to 19.69" (50 cm) 

Temperature:

37.4 °F - 42.8 °F (3°C - 6,5°C) 

Food:

Amphipods, azooxanthellat, Copepods, Marine snow, Suspended sediment , Zooplankton 

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) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Primnoa notialis
• 
  Primnoa pacifica
  Resedakoralle
• 
  Primnoa resedaeformis
  Resedakoralle
• Primnoa wingi

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2018-06-08 14:15:45 

Last edit:

2018-06-09 14:06:10 

Husbandry

Pictures

Commonly

Husbandry know-how of owners

Discussion

Last comment in the discussion about Primnoa pacifica