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Eguchipsammia serpentina Serpetine Cup Coral

Eguchipsammia serpentina is commonly referred to as Serpetine Cup Coral. Difficulty in the aquarium: Cold water animal. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profilbild Urheber Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL), Hawaii, USA

Foto: Hawaii

/ 352 Meter Tiefe
Courtesy of the author Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL), Hawaii, USA . Please visit www.soest.hawaii.edu for more information.

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lexID:
14578 
AphiaID:
286985 
Scientific:
Eguchipsammia serpentina 
German:
Tiefsee-Steinkoralle 
English:
Serpetine Cup Coral 
Category:
Stony Corals LPS 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Dendrophylliidae (Family) > Eguchipsammia (Genus) > serpentina (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Vaughan, ), 1907 
Occurrence:
(the) Maldives, Hawaii, New Caledonia 
Marine Zone:
Mesopelagial
Mesopelagic zone
lies between 200 to 1000 meters depth, thus it is considered the "twilight zone of the sea" between the light and dark depth zones. 
Sea depth:
200 - 362 Meter 
Food:
azooxanthellat, nonphotosynthetic, Copepods, Marine snow, Plankton 
Difficulty:
Cold water animal 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
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:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2022-03-15 19:39:22 

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Eguchipsammia serpentina is a deep-sea stony coral of the family Dendrophylliidae, the stony coral settles at depths where photosynthesis with zooxanthellae is no longer possible.
The best known, record-breaking photosymbiotically active stony corals at quite great depths are:

Leptoseris hawaiiensis with 172 meters depth.
Leptoseris fragilis with below 200 meters depth (see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4713449/)

Azooxanthellate deep-sea corals such as Eguchipsammia serpentina depend on the capture of forageable zooplankton in live or dead (marine snow) form.

We thank the Hawaiiʻi Undersea Research Lab (HURL) for permission to use photos of Eguchipsammia serpentina.

Synonyms:
Balanophyllia serpentina (Vaughan) unaccepted.
Dendrophyllia serpentina Vaughan, 1907

External links

  1. A new species of the sun coral genus Tubastraea (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) from Hong Kong , Seite 15 (en). Abgerufen am 08.03.2022.
  2. Eguchipsammia serpentina - azooxanthellat - (en). Abgerufen am 08.03.2022.
  3. New Records of Ahermatypic Corals (Scleractinia) from the Hawaiian and Line Islands (en). Abgerufen am 22.03.2022.
  4. New Records of Ahermatypic Corals (Scleractinia) from the Hawaiian and Line Islands (en). Abgerufen am 08.03.2022.
  5. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 08.03.2022.

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