Husbandry
Benzoni, Arrigoni & Hoeksema, 2014
Very sepecial thanks for the first nine photos of Blastomussa vivida to Dr. Bert W. Hoeksema, Head, Department of Marine Zoology, Lieden, Netherlands.
Distribution: from New Caledonia and Australia in the south, Peninsular Malaysia in the west, and Japan in the north, including various localities in the Coral Triangle .
A search hit in Google images for B. wellsi (4 February 2014) provided many pages actually showing B. vivida as an aquarists’ pet, thus suggesting that while the former species is less common in the aquarium trade,
Source:http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/nus/images/data/raffles_bulletin_of_zoology/zoology_volume_62/62rbz358-378.pdf
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Scleractinia incertae sedis (Family) > Blastomussa (Genus) > Blastomussa vivida (Species)
Very sepecial thanks for the first nine photos of Blastomussa vivida to Dr. Bert W. Hoeksema, Head, Department of Marine Zoology, Lieden, Netherlands.
Distribution: from New Caledonia and Australia in the south, Peninsular Malaysia in the west, and Japan in the north, including various localities in the Coral Triangle .
A search hit in Google images for B. wellsi (4 February 2014) provided many pages actually showing B. vivida as an aquarists’ pet, thus suggesting that while the former species is less common in the aquarium trade,
Source:http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/nus/images/data/raffles_bulletin_of_zoology/zoology_volume_62/62rbz358-378.pdf
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Scleractinia incertae sedis (Family) > Blastomussa (Genus) > Blastomussa vivida (Species)
