Eunicea fusca Gorgonian, Doughnut Sea Rod

Eunicea fusca is commonly referred to as Gorgonian, Doughnut Sea Rod. 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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Scientific:: Eunicea fusca
German:: Gorgonie, Doughnut-Meeresrute
English:: Gorgonian, Doughnut Sea Rod

Category:: Gorgonier

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Plexauridae (Family) > Eunicea (Genus) > fusca (Species)
Initial determination:: Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860

Occurrence:: Guadeloupe, Bermuda, Costa Rica, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., West-Atlantic Ocean
Sea depth:: 3 - 30 Meter
Size:: 11.81" - 19.69" (30cm - 50cm)
Temperature:: 13,5 °F - 27,4 °F (13,5°C - 27,4°C)
Food:: Dissolved inorganic substances) f.e.NaCL,CA, Mag, K, I.P, CO2, Dissolved organic substances, Zooxanthellae / Light
Difficulty:: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully
Offspring:: Possible to breed
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Least concern (LC)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Eunicea aspera
Eunicea asperula
Pickelgorgonie
Eunicea calyculata
Gorgonia
Eunicea castelnaudi
Eunicea citrina
Eunicea clavigera
Gorgonie
Eunicea distans
Eunicea echinata
Eunicea esperi
Eunicea flexuosa
Bogen-Strauchgorgonie
Eunicea fusca
Gorgonie, Doughnut-Meeresrute
Eunicea gracilis
Eunicea heteropora
Eunicea hicksoni
Eunicea hirta
Eunicea humilis
Eunicea inexpectata
Eunicea knighti
Gorgonie
Eunicea laciniata
Gorgonie
Eunicea laxispica
Hornkoralle
Eunicea lugubris
Eunicea madrepora
Eunicea mammosa
Gorgonie
Eunicea multicauda
Eunicea pallida
Gorgonie
Eunicea palmeri
Gorgonie
Eunicea pinta
Gorgonie
Eunicea sayoti
Eunicea sparsiflora
Eunicea stromyeri
Eunicea succinea
Gorgonie
Eunicea tayrona
Gorgonie
Eunicea tourneforti
Tournefort's Gorgonie
Eunicea turgida

More related species in this lexicon:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2020-07-19 18:21:14
Last edit:: 2020-09-29 14:42:23

Captive breeding / propagation

The offspring of Eunicea fusca are possible. Unfortunately, the number of offspring is not large enough to cover the demand of the trade. If you are interested in Eunicea fusca, please ask your dealer for offspring. If you already own Eunicea fusca, try breeding yourself. This will help to improve the availability of offspring in the trade and to conserve natural stocks.

Info

The horn coral Eunicea fusca lives in protected reef areas with medium wave load in the Caribbean.
The coral forms quite slender branches with a diameter between 2.5 - 3.5 mm, the tips of the branches are sometimes slightly nodular.

Colour: black-grey to ochre; polyps brown

Reproduction: asexual reproduction

The coral does not come specifically to the specialised trade.

External links

SeaLifeBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute-Digital File Manager (en). Abgerufen am 29.09.2020.
South Florida Octocorals (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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