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Heteropsammia eupsammides Smooth Bum Coral

Heteropsammia eupsammides is commonly referred to as Smooth Bum Coral. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
10388 
AphiaID:
288393 
Scientific:
Heteropsammia eupsammides 
German:
Großpolypige Steinkoralle 
English:
Smooth Bum Coral 
Category:
Sten koraller LPS 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Dendrophylliidae (Family) > Heteropsammia (Genus) > eupsammides (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Gray, ), 1849 
Occurrence:
Cambodia, East Africa, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Moluccas, Myanmar, New Caledonia, Okinawa, Philippines, Singapore, South China Sea, Sulu Sea , Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, Vietnam, Western Indian Ocean 
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:
2 - 281 Meter 
Size:
2,5 cm 
Temperature:
°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Apozooxanthellate (Azooxanthellate and Zooxanthellate), Zooplankton 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
Offspring:
None 
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:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2023-05-19 12:56:39 

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(Gray, 1849)

Heteropsammia eupsammides is almost always found on soft horizontal and gently sloping sandy bottoms as a free-living polyp with multiple mouths.
This coral usually occurs in association with Heterocyathus spp. and Cycloseris spp.

The worm, previously known as Aspidosiphon jukesi Baird, 1873 (Rice, 1976; Saiz Salinas, 1986), a junior subjective synonym of A. muelleri Diesing, 1851 (Cutler & Cutler, 1989), maintains the coral in an upright position and is even able to move it around (Feustel, 1966; Goreau & Yonge, 1968; Yonge, 1975).

Synonyms:
Heterocyathus eupsammides Gray, 1849
Heteropsammia geminata Verrill, 1870
Heteropsammia multilobata Moseley, 1881

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Dendrophylliidae (Family) > Heteropsammia (Genus) > Heteropsammia eupsammides (Species)

External links

  1. A new species of hermit crab, Diogenes heteropsammicola (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae), replaces a mutualistic sipunculan in a walking coral symbiosis (en). Abgerufen am 19.05.2023.
  2. Chaloklum Diving – Koh Phangan – Thailand (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. Hermit crab pictured living in Walking Dendro (en). Abgerufen am 19.05.2023.
  4. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  5. New observations on scleractinian corals from Indonesia: 2. Sipunculan-associated species belonging to the genera Heterocyathus and Heteropsammia (en). Abgerufen am 19.05.2023.
  6. Reciprocal Symbiont Sharing in the Lodging Mutualism between Walking Corals and Sipunculans (en). Abgerufen am 19.05.2023.
  7. SeaLifeBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  8. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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