Stephanocoenia intersepta
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Stephanocoenia intersepta (synonym Stephanocoenia michelini ) is a hard coral thatis endemic to the tropical, western Atlantic . It occurs in Bermuda , the Bahamas , on the Florida coastand in the Caribbean to Curacao and Bonaire .
features
Their beige to brown colonies grow as crusts or hemispheres. The corallites have a diameter of two to three millimeters, 24 septa (from three cycles: 6 + 6 + 12), 12 reach the solid columella, which is oval when viewed from above. The polyps are nocturnal.
Stephanocoenia intersepta can be associated with red tube worms . If the worms stretch out their tentacles, the surface of the coral appears reddish, as if it were driving “shame into its face”. In the English-speaking world it therefore bears the common name “Blushing Star Coral” (= shameful star coral).
Systematics
In the stony coral system, Stephanocoenia intersepta (monospecific) is placed in the four genera family Astrocoeniidae . S. michelinii (sic) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848, is a junior synonym of Stephanocoenia intersepta (Lamarck, 1816) (see Cairns et al. 1999). Veron (2000) placed the genera Madracis and Palauastrea , which previously belonged to Pocilloporidae, into the family Astrocoeniidae Koby, 1890.
literature
- H. Erhardt, H. Moosleitner: Mergus sea water atlas. Volume 2, Mergus-Verlag, Melle 1997, ISBN 3-88244-112-7 .
- SA Fosså, AJ Nilsen: Coral reef aquarium. Volume 4, Birgit Schmettkamp Verlag, ISBN 3-928819-05-4 .
- H. Fukami, CA Chen, AF Budd, A. Collins, C. Wallace et al .: Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes Suggest that Stony Corals Are Monophyletic but Most Families of Stony Corals Are Not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria). In: PLoS ONE. 3 (9), 2008, p. E3222. doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0003222
- SD Cairns, BW Hoeksema, J. van der Land: Appendix: list of extant stony corals. In: Atoll Research Bulletin. 459, 1999, pp. 13-46.
- JEN Veron: Corals of the world. Astrocoeniidae. Vol 2, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia 2000, ISBN 0-642-32236-8 , pp. 3-21.
Web link
- Heliofungia actiniformis in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Hoeksema, B., Rogers, A. & Quibilan, M., 2008. Retrieved January 4, 2014.