Dendrogyra cylindrus Pillar coral

Dendrogyra cylindrus is commonly referred to as Pillar coral. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not for beginners. A aquarium size of at least 200 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

3744 

AphiaID:

418865 

Scientific:

Dendrogyra cylindrus 

German:

Säulen-Koralle 

English:

Pillar Coral 

Category:

Stony Corals LPS 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Meandrinidae (Family) > Dendrogyra (Genus) > cylindrus (Species) 

Initial determination:

Ehrenberg, 1834 

Occurrence:

Barbados, Guadeloupe, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico (East Pacific), Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Minor Outlying Islands, USA, Venezuela, West-Atlantic Ocean 

Sea depth:

- 40 Meter 

Size:

up to 78.74" (200 cm) 

Temperature:

68 °F - 78.8 °F (20°C - 26°C) 

Food:

Dissolved inorganic substances) f.e.NaCL,CA, Mag, K, I.P, CO2, Dissolved organic substances, Plankton, Zooxanthellae / Light 

Tank:

44 gal (~ 200L)  

Difficulty:

Not for beginners 

Offspring:

Possible to breed 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

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

Red List:

Endangered (EN) 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Dendrogyra cylindrus
  Säulen-Koralle

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2011-06-04 09:09:40 

Last edit:

2022-12-30 09:54:29 

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