Leptoria phrygia Stony Coral

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Leptoria phrygia. Red Sea. Small massive cushion-shaped colonies formed by regrowth after partial mortality are common. Photograph: Charlie Veron.

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Leptoria phrygia , Closed brain coral, (Bassin des Hirondelles- Étang-Salé), La Reunion 2015

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lexID:: 1987
AphiaID:: 207477

Scientific:: Leptoria phrygia
German:: Großpolypige Steinkoralle
English:: Stony Coral

Category:: Stony Corals LPS
Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) > Leptoria (Genus) > phrygia (Species)
Initial determination:: (Ellis & Solander, ), 1786

Occurrence:: Australia, Coral sea, Great Barrier Reef, Indian Ocean, Japan, Red Sea, Western Indian Ocean
Size:: up to 9.84" (25 cm)
Temperature:: 75.2 °F - 80.6 °F (24°C - 27°C)
Food:: Plankton, Zooxanthellae / Light
Tank:: 33 gal (~ 150L)
Difficulty:: Average

CITES:: Appendix II ((commercial trade possible after a safety assessment by the exporting country))

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2006-08-01 22:41:55
Last edit:: 2007-05-09 00:55:10

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Its easy to keep in Reef Tanks. But its rar in european Reef Tanks.

Infos from AIMS:
Characters: Colonies are massive, submassive or ridged, with an even surface and dense skeleton. Corallite valleys are sinuous and uniform. Septa are uniformly spaced and are of equal size. Columellae are plate-like with a lobed upper margin and do not form centres.

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Chrysokoll am 13.11.06#1

Laut Veron gibt es noch eine Art namens L. irregularis.
Leptoria phrygia ist empfindlich was das eigene vernesselt werden betrifft (ist mir mal runtergefallen!). Sie bekämpft Algen, welche ihr auf dem Substrat im Weg sind, mit Mesenterialfilamente.
Die Kalkstruktur scheint mir (ich habe mal ein 'Skelett' erhalten) nicht sehr stabil zu sein. Was vieleicht das seltene Handeln dieser Art erklären würde. Den ich bezweifel, dass das zersägen großer Exemplare (wie z.B. bei Acanthastrea sp.) nur mit erheblicher Zerstörung der Kolonie einher gehen würde.
Bei hoher Beleuchtung ist rasches Wachtum feststellbar.

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