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Platygyra carnosa Brain coral

Platygyra carnosais commonly referred to as Brain coral. Difficulty in the aquarium: Average. A aquarium size of at least 200 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
4299 
AphiaID:
763555 
Scientific:
Platygyra carnosa 
German:
Hirnkoralle 
English:
Brain Coral 
Category:
Stony Corals LPS 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hexacorallia (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) > Platygyra (Genus) > carnosa (Species) 
Initial determination:
Veron, 2000 
Occurrence:
Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan, Australia, China, Comores, East Africa, Egypt, Gulf of Aden, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Philippines, Red Sea, Réunion , Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, the Cargados Carajos Shoals, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Seychelles, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Vietnam, Yemen 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
1 - 30 Meter 
Size:
up to 78.74" (200 cm) 
Temperature:
79.52 °F - 84.56 °F (26.4°C - 29.2°C) 
Food:
Phytoplankton, Plankton, Zooplankton 
Tank:
44 gal (~ 200L)  
Difficulty:
Average 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Appendix II ((commercial trade possible after a safety assessment by the exporting country)) 
Red List:
Near threatened (NT) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
More related species
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2024-05-03 16:06:32 

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“From Veron, J.E.N. Corals of the World.”
Veron, 2000

Characters: Colonies are massive and cerioid to submeandroid with thin, acute walls. Valleys are irregular in length in the same colony. Septa are thin and highly granulated. They converge and may fuse except where valleys are straight. Columellae are well developed. Polyps are fleshy.

Colour: Uniform brown or red, with pale tops to walls.

Habitat: Shallow reef environments.

Abundance: Uncommon.

Similar species: Platygyra verweyi

Scientific paper

  1. Erratum to:Coralslurrinella hongkonensisgen. nov., sp. nov., a novel bacterium in the familyPsychromonadaceae,isolated from the coralPlatygyra carnosus, Li, Yanxia; Chan, Yuki; Fu, Yingnan; Zhang, Rui; Chiu, Jill M. Y. , 2014
  2. Complete mitochondrial genome of the brain coral Platygyra carnosus, Wang, Mingling; Sun, Jin; Li, Jiaqi; Qiu, Jian-wen , 2013
  3. PcarnBase: Development of a Transcriptomic Database for the Brain CoralPlatygyra carnosus, Jin Sun,Qian Chen,Janice C. Y. Lun,Jianliang Xu,Jian-Wen Qiu, 2013
  4. Coralslurrinella hongkonensisgen. nov., sp. nov., a novel bacterium in the familyPsychromonadaceae, isolated from the coralPlatygyra carnosus, Li, Yanxia; Chan, Yuki; Fu, Yingnan; Zhang, Rui; Chiu, Jill M. Y., 2013

External links

  1. Corals of the World by Charlie Veron (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. SeaLifeBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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