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Tubastraea
''Tubastraea'', also known as sun coral or sun polyps, is a genus of coral in the phylum Cnidaria. It is a cup coral in the family Dendrophylliidae. Description ''Sun corals'' belong to a group of corals known as large-polyp stony corals. This means that while they produce a hard skeleton, they do not build reefs. Different species have polyps in a variety of colors, including yellow, orange, and shades of black. Feeding Unlike most shallow water corals, ''Sun corals'' are not photosynthetic. ''Tubastraea'' do not host zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae that provides energy to the coral via photosynthesis. Instead, they are heterotrophic, and extend long tentacles at night to catch passing zooplankton; their large polyp size allows them to take relatively large zooplankton. Habitat ''Tubastraea coccinea'' was first documented in 1943 on Caribbean reefs in Curaçao and Puerto Rico. ''T. coccinea'' is an invasive species that was documented to have spread as far north as the Flori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tubastraea Nomlandi
''Tubastraea'', also known as sun coral or sun polyps, is a genus of coral in the phylum Cnidaria. It is a cup coral in the family Dendrophylliidae. Description ''Sun corals'' belong to a group of corals known as large-polyp stony corals. This means that while they produce a hard skeleton, they do not build reefs. Different species have polyps in a variety of colors, including yellow, orange, and shades of black. Feeding Unlike most shallow water corals, ''Sun corals'' are not photosynthetic. ''Tubastraea'' do not host zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae that provides energy to the coral via photosynthesis. Instead, they are heterotrophic, and extend long tentacles at night to catch passing zooplankton; their large polyp size allows them to take relatively large zooplankton. Habitat ''Tubastraea coccinea'' was first documented in 1943 on Caribbean reefs in Curaçao and Puerto Rico. ''T. coccinea'' is an invasive species that was documented to have spread as far north as the Flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tubastraea Caboverdiana
''Tubastraea'', also known as sun coral or sun polyps, is a genus of coral in the phylum Cnidaria. It is a cup coral in the family Dendrophylliidae. Description ''Sun corals'' belong to a group of corals known as large-polyp stony corals. This means that while they produce a hard skeleton, they do not build reefs. Different species have polyps in a variety of colors, including yellow, orange, and shades of black. Feeding Unlike most shallow water corals, ''Sun corals'' are not photosynthetic. ''Tubastraea'' do not host zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae that provides energy to the coral via photosynthesis. Instead, they are heterotrophic, and extend long tentacles at night to catch passing zooplankton; their large polyp size allows them to take relatively large zooplankton. Habitat ''Tubastraea coccinea'' was first documented in 1943 on Caribbean reefs in Curaçao and Puerto Rico. ''T. coccinea'' is an invasive species that was documented to have spread as far north as the Flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tubastraea Diaphana
''Tubastraea'', also known as sun coral or sun polyps, is a genus of coral in the phylum Cnidaria. It is a cup coral in the family Dendrophylliidae. Description ''Sun corals'' belong to a group of corals known as large-polyp stony corals. This means that while they produce a hard skeleton, they do not build reefs. Different species have polyps in a variety of colors, including yellow, orange, and shades of black. Feeding Unlike most shallow water corals, ''Sun corals'' are not photosynthetic. ''Tubastraea'' do not host zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae that provides energy to the coral via photosynthesis. Instead, they are heterotrophic, and extend long tentacles at night to catch passing zooplankton; their large polyp size allows them to take relatively large zooplankton. Habitat ''Tubastraea coccinea'' was first documented in 1943 on Caribbean reefs in Curaçao and Puerto Rico. ''T. coccinea'' is an invasive species that was documented to have spread as far north as the Flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tubastraea Floreana
''Tubastraea'', also known as sun coral or sun polyps, is a genus of coral in the phylum Cnidaria. It is a cup coral in the family Dendrophylliidae. Description ''Sun corals'' belong to a group of corals known as large-polyp stony corals. This means that while they produce a hard skeleton, they do not build reefs. Different species have polyps in a variety of colors, including yellow, orange, and shades of black. Feeding Unlike most shallow water corals, ''Sun corals'' are not photosynthetic. ''Tubastraea'' do not host zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae that provides energy to the coral via photosynthesis. Instead, they are heterotrophic, and extend long tentacles at night to catch passing zooplankton; their large polyp size allows them to take relatively large zooplankton. Habitat ''Tubastraea coccinea'' was first documented in 1943 on Caribbean reefs in Curaçao and Puerto Rico. ''T. coccinea'' is an invasive species that was documented to have spread as far north as the Flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tubastraea Aurea
''Tubastraea'', also known as sun coral or sun polyps, is a genus of coral in the phylum Cnidaria. It is a cup coral in the family Dendrophylliidae. Description ''Sun corals'' belong to a group of corals known as large-polyp stony corals. This means that while they produce a hard skeleton, they do not build reefs. Different species have polyps in a variety of colors, including yellow, orange, and shades of black. Feeding Unlike most shallow water corals, ''Sun corals'' are not photosynthetic. ''Tubastraea'' do not host zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae that provides energy to the coral via photosynthesis. Instead, they are heterotrophic, and extend long tentacles at night to catch passing zooplankton; their large polyp size allows them to take relatively large zooplankton. Habitat ''Tubastraea coccinea'' was first documented in 1943 on Caribbean reefs in Curaçao and Puerto Rico. ''T. coccinea'' is an invasive species that was documented to have spread as far north as the Flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tubastraea Tagusensis
''Tubastraea tagusensis'' is a hard coral species in the family Dendrophylliidae. The species is azooxanthellate, thus does not need sunlight for development, and does not form reefs. It is native to the Galapagos Islands but has become invasive along the Atlantic coast of South America. Distribution ''Tubastraea tagusensis'' was first described from the Galapagos Archipelago. Later it was also found in the Nicobar Islands, in Palau and Kuwait. It was first found to be invasive on the Brazilian coast in the 1980s on oil platforms north of Rio de Janeiro. The species can be found in shady places such as caves or beneath boulders on rocky shores. Species in this genus are usually native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and some are considered highly invasive along certain coastlines. Invasiveness Due to their prolific spread, the species has locally caused severe ecological damage. It has expanded to the Southwest Atlantic Ocean, specifically along the Brazilian coastline wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tubastraea Faulkneri
''Tubastraea faulkneri'', common name Orange sun coral, is a species of large-polyp stony corals belonging to the family Dendrophylliidae. Other common names of this coral are Orange Cup Coral, Sun Coral, Orange Polyp Coral, Rose Sun Coral, Golden Cup Coral, Sun Flower Coral, and Tube Coral. Etymology The species has been named ''faulkneri'' by the American paleontologist John West Wells in 1982 in honor of Douglas Faulkner, who collected and illustrated in color the specimen used for the description. Distribution This species is mainly present in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, in Australian water and from the Philippines to the Galapagos Islands. Habitat These large-polyp stony corals usually occurs in areas with a strong water flow and a high nutrient content, not necessarily related to the reef, at depths of 3 to 5 m. Description ''Tubastraea faulkneri'' is an encrusting coral that can become massive and strongly convex. The corallites of this species are covered with a porous t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tubastraea Coccinea
Orange cup coral (''Tubastraea coccinea'') belongs to a group of corals known as large-polyp stony corals. This non-reef building coral extends beautiful translucent tentacles at night. ''Tubastraea coccinea'' is heterotrophic and does not contain zooxanthellae in its tissues as many tropical corals do, allowing it to grow in complete darkness as long as it can capture enough food. Habitat ''Tubastraea coccinea'' inhabits shaded vertical surfaces and caverns down to huge depths. Orange-cup-corals are also found in very cold water throughout the world. Orange-cup corals often dominate tropical habitats not occupied by other coral species, such as wrecks and cryptic reef habitats. They also colonize artificial structures, but experiments have demonstrated similar preferences for granite, cement, steel and tile. In Brazil, they are most abundant in the shallow sub-tidal zone at shallow depths between 0m and 3m.De Paula & Creed, 2004, 2005, Creed 2006 Invasive introduction and ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tubastraea Micranthus
''Tubastraea micranthus'' is a species of corals belonging to the family Dendrophylliidae Dendrophylliidae is a family of stony corals. Most (but not all) members are azooxanthellate and thus have to capture food with their tentacles instead of relying on photosynthesis to produce their food. The World Register of Marine Species incl .... The species is found in Indian and Pacific Ocean. References Dendrophylliidae Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg {{Improve categories, date=February 2022 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophylliidae is a family of stony corals. Most (but not all) members are azooxanthellate and thus have to capture food with their tentacles instead of relying on photosynthesis to produce their food. The World Register of Marine Species includes these genera in the family: * '' Astroides'' Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 * ''Balanophyllia'' Wood, 1844 * '' Balanopsammia'' Ocana & Brito, 2013 * '' Bathypsammia'' Marenzeller, 1907 * '' Cladopsammia'' Lacaze-Duthiers, 1897 * '' Dendrophyllia'' de Blainville, 1830 * '' Dichopsammia'' Song, 1994 * '' Duncanopsammia'' Wells, 1936 * '' Eguchipsammia'' Cairns, 1994 * ''Enallopsammia'' Sismonda, 1871 * '' Endopachys'' Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 * '' Endopsammia'' Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 * ''Heteropsammia ''Heteropsammia'' is a genus of apozooxanthellate corals that belong to the family Dendrophylliidae. Anatomy These corals consist of free-living, single polyps, of a diameter of around 2.5 cm. They form a symbiotic relationship w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phylum
In biology, a phylum (; plural: phyla) is a level of classification or taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class. Traditionally, in botany the term division has been used instead of phylum, although the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants accepts the terms as equivalent. Depending on definitions, the animal kingdom Animalia contains about 31 phyla, the plant kingdom Plantae contains about 14 phyla, and the fungus kingdom Fungi contains about 8 phyla. Current research in phylogenetics is uncovering the relationships between phyla, which are contained in larger clades, like Ecdysozoa and Embryophyta. General description The term phylum was coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel from the Greek (, "race, stock"), related to (, "tribe, clan"). Haeckel noted that species constantly evolved into new species that seemed to retain few consistent features among themselves and therefore few features that distinguished them as a group ("a self-contained unity" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invasive Species
An invasive species otherwise known as an alien is an introduced organism that becomes overpopulated and harms its new environment. Although most introduced species are neutral or beneficial with respect to other species, invasive species adversely affect habitats and bioregions, causing ecological, environmental, and/or economic damage. The term can also be used for native species that become harmful to their native environment after human alterations to its food webfor example the purple sea urchin (''Strongylocentrotus purpuratus'') which has decimated kelp forests along the northern California coast due to overharvesting of its natural predator, the California sea otter (''Enhydra lutris''). Since the 20th century, invasive species have become a serious economic, social, and environmental threat. Invasion of long-established ecosystems by organisms is a natural phenomenon, but human-facilitated introductions have greatly increased the rate, scale, and geographic range of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
