Hexacorallia |
Scleractinia |
Caryophylliidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Reef-associated. Subtropical
Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean and Indo-West Pacific.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
The stony corals non colonial, whose skeleton limestone reaches 0.35 cm vertically, of oval section, at base little, even hardly narrowed. The tentacles comprise at their end a small spherical bludgeon. Polyps: brownish coupler, brownish or pink, the generally ringed oral disc of a brown ring, drawing towards the red (Ref. 358).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
This species is viviparous, the fecundation of the ovum taking place inside the body of the parent, where they develop to with it until the stage of polyps in miniature (Ref. 358).
Göthel, H. 1992. (Ref. 358)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
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Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 8.9 - 21.3, mean 13.5 (based on 812 cells).
Price category
Unknown.