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Lobophytum Proprium and the genus '' Lobophytum.'' It is found on Vanuatu.
''Lobophytum proprium'' is a species of soft coral in the family Alcyoniidae Alcyoniidae is a family of leathery or soft corals in the phylum Cnidaria.Leathery cor ... References Alcyoniidae Animals described in 1970 {{Octocorallia-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcyoniidae
Alcyoniidae is a family of leathery or soft corals in the phylum Cnidaria.Leathery corals Wildsingapore.com (2010-02-28). Retrieved on 2013-09-17. Description A colony of leathery coral is stiff, hard and inflexible. It is composed of tiny polyps projecting from a shared leathery tissue. Members of the family may have two kinds of polyps; the autozooids have long trunks and eight tiny branched tentacles and project from the shared leathery tissue while the siphonozooids remain below the surface and pump water for the colony. They appear as tiny hollows or mounds among the taller autozooids. Different genera have different proportions of these two kinds of polyps. The autozooids only emerge when the colony is fully submerged.Distribution and habitat Leathe ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lobophytum
''Lobophytum'' is a genus of soft corals commonly known as devil's hand corals or devil's hand leather corals. Habitat and range ''Lobophytum'' species can be found in shallow water throughout a wide area of the tropical Indo-Pacific. Species *'' Lobophytum altum'' Tixier-Durivault, 1956 *'' Lobophytum anomolum'' Li, 1984 *''Lobophytum batarum'' Moser, 1919 *'' Lobophytum borbonicum'' von Marenzeller, 1886 *'' Lobophytum caputospiculatum'' Li, 1984 *''Lobophytum catalai'' Tixier-Durivault, 1957 *''Lobophytum compactum'' Tixier-Durivault, 1956 *'' Lobophytum crassodigitum'' Li, 1984 *'' Lobophytum crassospiculatum'' (Moser, 1919) *'' Lobophytum crassum'' von Marenzeller, 1886 *''Lobophytum crebliplicatum'' von Marenzeller, 1886 *'' Lobophytum cristagalli'' von Marenzeller, 1886 *''Lobophytum cristatum'' Tixier-Durivault, 1970 *''Lobophytum cryptocormum'' Verseveldt & Tursch, 1979 *'' Lobophytum delectum'' Tixier-Durivault, 1966 *''Lobophytum densum'' Tixier-Durivault, 1970 *'' Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of the Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji. Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Fernandes de Queirós, who arrived on the largest island, Espíritu Santo, in 1606. Queirós claimed the archipelago for Spain, as part of the colonial Spanish East Indies, and named it . In the 1880s, France and the United Kingdom claimed parts of the archipelago, and in 1906, they agreed on a framework for jointly managing the archipelago as the New Hebrides through an Anglo-French condominium. An independence movement arose in the 1970s, and the Republic of Vanuatu was fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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