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Eleutherobia rubra Soft Coral

Eleutherobia rubra is commonly referred to as Soft Coral. Difficulty in the aquarium: Experts only! Very hard to keep. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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rechts: Kolonie auf der Felsoberfläche auf der Geumodo-Insel in der Südsee

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lexID:
15474 
AphiaID:
287765 
Scientific:
Eleutherobia rubra 
German:
Weichkoralle 
English:
Soft Coral 
Category:
Soft Corals 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Malacalcyonacea (Order) > Alcyoniidae (Family) > Eleutherobia (Genus) > rubra (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Brundin, ), 1896 
Occurrence:
California, Corea, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Japan, Northern Territory (Australia), West Coast USA, Western Australia 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
20 - 182 Meter 
Size:
2.76" - 3.15" (7cm - 8cm) 
Temperature:
42.8 °F - 77 °F (6°C - 25°C) 
Food:
azooxanthellat, nonphotosynthetic, Carnivore, Invertebrates, Zooplankton 
Difficulty:
Experts only! Very hard to keep 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Eleutherobia australiensis
  • Eleutherobia dofleini
    Weichkoralle
  • Eleutherobia duriuscula
  • Eleutherobia flava
  • Eleutherobia grandiflora
  • Eleutherobia imaharai
  • Eleutherobia lutea
  • Eleutherobia rigida
  • Eleutherobia rubra
    Weichkoralle
  • Eleutherobia somaliensis
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2023-01-04 18:29:33 

Info

The soft coral genus Eleutherobia included species distributed from southern Africa to the south central Pacific.

Eleutherobia rubra is a temperate and cold water coral that does not enter the retail market.
The photo on the right shows a colony of the colorful, finger-shaped soft coral on the rock surface of Geumodo Island ("Golden Turtle Island"), South Korea, South Sea.

Similar species: Parasphaerasclera zanahoria (Williams, 2000) (formerly Eleutherobia zanahoria Williams, 2000)

The species name "rubra" refers to the red color of the soft coral.

Synonyms:
Bellonella (Eleutherobia) rubra Brundin, 1896
Bellonella cinerea Brundin, 1896
Bellonella rubra Brundin, 1896
Nidalia cinerea (Brundin, 1896)
Nidalia rubra (Brundin, 1896)

External links

  1. A new species of the soft coral genus Eleutherobia Pütter, 1900 (Octocorallia, Alcyoniidae) from South Africa (en). Abgerufen am 30.12.2022.
  2. First transcriptome assembly of the temperate azooxanthellate octocoral Eleutherobia rubra (en). Abgerufen am 30.12.2022.
  3. Mare 200 (it). Abgerufen am 30.12.2022.
  4. Marine Biological Station, Sado Island Center for Ecological Sustainability, Niigata University (en). Abgerufen am 30.12.2022.
  5. Preliminary Report on the Alcyonacean and Pennatulacean Octocorals from the Izu and Ogasawara Islands (en). Abgerufen am 30.12.2022.
  6. Revision of the genera Bellonella, Eleutherobia, Nidalia and Nidaliopsis (Octocorallia, Alcyoniidae and Nidalliidae), with descriptions of two new genera (en). Abgerufen am 30.12.2022.
  7. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 30.12.2022.

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rechts: Kolonie auf der Felsoberfläche auf der Geumodo-Insel in der Südsee

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