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Caulastraea
''Caulastraea'' is a genus of stony corals in the family Merulinidae. Species of ''Caulastraea'' are commonly found in the aquarium trade under the names candy cane coral or trumpet coral. Species The following species are currently recognized: *'' Caulastraea connata'' (Ortmann, 1892) *'' Caulastraea curvata'' Wijsman-Best, 1972 *'' Caulastraea echinulata'' (M. Edwards & Haime, 1849) *'' Caulastraea furcata'' Dana, 1846 *'' Caulastraea tumida'' Matthai, 1928 Gallery File:Candy cane coral (Caulastrea echinulata) (5).jpg, At Birdworld Birdworld is the United Kingdom's largest bird park, covering . It is located in the East Hampshire district, close to the village of Bucks Horn Oak and the surrounding Alice Holt Forest. It is part of the parent company Haskins Garden Centre Lt ..., England File:Caulastraea 1.jpg, A colony in captivity File:Caulastraea, luz actínica.jpg, Feeder tentacles extended References External links * * Merulinidae Scleractinia genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caulastraea Connata
''Caulastraea'' is a genus of stony corals in the family Merulinidae. Species of ''Caulastraea'' are commonly found in the aquarium trade under the names candy cane coral or trumpet coral. Species The following species are currently recognized: *'' Caulastraea connata'' (Ortmann, 1892) *'' Caulastraea curvata'' Wijsman-Best, 1972 *'' Caulastraea echinulata'' (M. Edwards & Haime, 1849) *'' Caulastraea furcata'' Dana, 1846 *'' Caulastraea tumida'' Matthai, 1928 Gallery File:Candy cane coral (Caulastrea echinulata) (5).jpg, At Birdworld Birdworld is the United Kingdom's largest bird park, covering . It is located in the East Hampshire district, close to the village of Bucks Horn Oak and the surrounding Alice Holt Forest. It is part of the parent company Haskins Garden Centre Lt ..., England File:Caulastraea 1.jpg, A colony in captivity File:Caulastraea, luz actínica.jpg, Feeder tentacles extended References External links * * Merulinidae Scleractinia genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caulastraea Curvata
''Caulastraea'' is a genus of stony corals in the family Merulinidae. Species of ''Caulastraea'' are commonly found in the aquarium trade under the names candy cane coral or trumpet coral. Species The following species are currently recognized: *''Caulastraea connata'' (Ortmann, 1892) *'' Caulastraea curvata'' Wijsman-Best, 1972 *'' Caulastraea echinulata'' (M. Edwards & Haime, 1849) *'' Caulastraea furcata'' Dana, 1846 *'' Caulastraea tumida'' Matthai, 1928 Gallery File:Candy cane coral (Caulastrea echinulata) (5).jpg, At Birdworld Birdworld is the United Kingdom's largest bird park, covering . It is located in the East Hampshire district, close to the village of Bucks Horn Oak and the surrounding Alice Holt Forest. It is part of the parent company Haskins Garden Centre Lt ..., England File:Caulastraea 1.jpg, A colony in captivity File:Caulastraea, luz actínica.jpg, Feeder tentacles extended References External links * * Merulinidae Scleractinia genera< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caulastraea Echinulata
''Caulastraea'' is a genus of stony corals in the family Merulinidae. Species of ''Caulastraea'' are commonly found in the aquarium trade under the names candy cane coral or trumpet coral. Species The following species are currently recognized: *''Caulastraea connata'' (Ortmann, 1892) *''Caulastraea curvata'' Wijsman-Best, 1972 *'' Caulastraea echinulata'' (M. Edwards & Haime, 1849) *'' Caulastraea furcata'' Dana, 1846 *'' Caulastraea tumida'' Matthai, 1928 Gallery File:Candy cane coral (Caulastrea echinulata) (5).jpg, At Birdworld Birdworld is the United Kingdom's largest bird park, covering . It is located in the East Hampshire district, close to the village of Bucks Horn Oak and the surrounding Alice Holt Forest. It is part of the parent company Haskins Garden Centre Lt ..., England File:Caulastraea 1.jpg, A colony in captivity File:Caulastraea, luz actínica.jpg, Feeder tentacles extended References External links * * Merulinidae Scleractinia genera [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caulastraea Tumida
''Caulastraea'' is a genus of stony corals in the family Merulinidae. Species of ''Caulastraea'' are commonly found in the aquarium trade under the names candy cane coral or trumpet coral. Species The following species are currently recognized: *''Caulastraea connata'' (Ortmann, 1892) *''Caulastraea curvata'' Wijsman-Best, 1972 *''Caulastraea echinulata'' (M. Edwards & Haime, 1849) *'' Caulastraea furcata'' Dana, 1846 *'' Caulastraea tumida'' Matthai, 1928 Gallery File:Candy cane coral (Caulastrea echinulata) (5).jpg, At Birdworld Birdworld is the United Kingdom's largest bird park, covering . It is located in the East Hampshire district, close to the village of Bucks Horn Oak and the surrounding Alice Holt Forest. It is part of the parent company Haskins Garden Centre Lt ..., England File:Caulastraea 1.jpg, A colony in captivity File:Caulastraea, luz actínica.jpg, Feeder tentacles extended References External links * * Merulinidae Scleractinia genera [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caulastraea Furcata
''Caulastraea furcata'', also known as the candy cane, trumpet, or bullseye coral, is a species of large stony coral in the family Merulinidae Merulinidae is a family of reef-building stony corals. Characteristics All the genera in this family are colonial, reef-building corals. Skeletal structures are similar to those of Faviidae but are highly fused, without paliform lobes. The vall .... Description ''Caulastraea furcata'' skeletal structure consist of tubular stalks with stars on each tip. As in other colony-forming corals, colonies of ''C. furcata'' are made up of several large polyps. Each polyp bears relatively short tentacles that direct food into its central mouth. The food is then digested in a sac-like body cavity. This species is often green, yellow, or greenish brown. Distribution and habitat ''Caulastraea furcata'' can be found in the Indo-Pacific from Fiji to Australia and possibly further west toward Thailand. This species is usually found in protected reef s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merulinidae
Merulinidae is a family of reef-building stony corals. Characteristics All the genera in this family are colonial, reef-building corals. Skeletal structures are similar to those of Faviidae but are highly fused, without paliform lobes. The valleys are superficial or may be indistinct because of fan-like spreading or contortions in the ridges. Faviidae and Trachyphylliidae are the most closely related families. Genera The World Register of Marine Species includes these genera in the family: *'' Astrea'' Lamarck, 1801 *''Australogyra'' Veron & Pichon, 1982 *'' Boninastrea'' Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935 *''Caulastraea'' Dana, 1846 *''Coelastrea'' Verrill, 1866 *''Cyphastrea'' Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 *''Dipsastraea'' Blainville, 1830 *''Echinopora'' Lamarck, 1816 *'' Erythrastrea'' Pichon, Scheer & Pillai, 1983 *''Favites'' Link, 1807 *''Goniastrea'' Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 *''Hydnophora'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 *'' Hydnophyllia'' † Reis, 1889 *'' Isastraea''† Milne Edwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dwight Dana
James Dwight Dana Royal Society of London, FRS FRSE (February 12, 1813 – April 14, 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcano, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world. His zoological author abbreviation is Dana. Early life and career Dana was born February 12, 1813, in Utica, New York. His father was merchant James Dana (1780–1860) and his mother was Harriet Dwight (1792–1870). Through his mother he was related to the Dwight New England family of missionaries and educators including uncle Harrison Gray Otis Dwight and first cousin Henry Otis Dwight. He showed an early interest in science, which had been fostered by Fay Edgerton, a teacher in the Utica high school, and in 1830 he entered Yale College in order to study under Benjamin Silliman the elder. Graduating in 1833, for the next two years he was teacher of mathematics to midshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. Other ways of defining species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology, behaviour or ecological niche. In addition, paleontologists use the concept of the chronospecies since fossil reproduction cannot be examined. The most recent rigorous estimate for the total number of species of eukaryotes is between 8 and 8.7 million. However, only about 14% of these had been described by 2011. All species (except viruses) are given a two-part name, a "binomial". The first part of a binomial is the genus to which the species belongs. The second part is called the specific name or the specific epithet (in botanical nomenclature, also sometimes i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scleractinia
Scleractinia, also called stony corals or hard corals, are marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria that build themselves a hard skeleton. The individual animals are known as polyp (zoology), polyps and have a cylindrical body crowned by an oral disc in which a mouth is fringed with tentacles. Although some species are solitary, most are Colony (biology), colonial. The founding polyp settles and starts to secrete calcium carbonate to protect its soft body. Solitary corals can be as much as across but in colonial species the polyps are usually only a few millimetres in diameter. These polyps reproduce asexually by budding, but remain attached to each other, forming a multi-polyp colony of cloning, clones with a common skeleton, which may be up to several metres in diameter or height according to species. The shape and appearance of each coral colony depends not only on the species, but also on its location, depth, the amount of water movement and other factors. Many shallow-water co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. Other ways of defining species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology, behaviour or ecological niche. In addition, paleontologists use the concept of the chronospecies since fossil reproduction cannot be examined. The most recent rigorous estimate for the total number of species of eukaryotes is between 8 and 8.7 million. However, only about 14% of these had been described by 2011. All species (except viruses) are given a two-part name, a "binomial". The first part of a binomial is the genus to which the species belongs. The second part is called the specific name or the specific epithet (in botanical nomenclature, also sometimes i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
