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Caliacis nutans Gorgonian

Caliacis nutans is commonly referred to as Gorgonian. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profilbild Urheber NOAA Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary


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lexID:
16728 
AphiaID:
289550 
Scientific:
Caliacis nutans 
German:
Gorgonie 
English:
Gorgonian 
Category:
Gorgonier 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Octocorallia (Class) > Octocorallia incertae sedis (Order) > Caliacis (Genus) > nutans (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Duchassaing & Michelotti, ), 1864 
Occurrence:
Guadeloupe, Barbados, Columbia, Florida, Grenada, Gulf of Mexico, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, West-Atlantic 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:
37 - 293 Meter 
Habitats:
Continental shelf, Deep-sea mountains, Seawater, Sea water 
Size:
up to 7.87" (20 cm) 
Temperature:
11,7 °F - 78.8 °F (11,7°C - 26°C) 
Food:
azooxanthellat, nonphotosynthetic, Plankton, Suspension feeder 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2024-10-29 20:13:26 

Info

Caliacis nutans is a fairly common gorgonian in the specified areas of occurrence, although not all occurrences of the species are known.
Caliacis nutans forms a loosely branched shape with widely ramified, forked branches and long, upward bending ramifications.

Color:
The NOAA Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary photo shows an orange-reddish coloration, in the essay “Gorgonian Corals”, available under “Related Links”,
you can see live corals with a white-beige coloration (page 736).

The coral is not available in the German specialized trade.

Synonyms:
Acis nutans Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted > superseded combination (original combination)
Thesea nutans (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) · unaccepted > superseded combination

External links

  1. Coral Trait Database (en). Abgerufen am 05.09.2024.
  2. Gorgonian Corals (en). Abgerufen am 29.10.2024.
  3. List of Deep-Sea Coral Taxa in the U.S. Caribbean Region: Depth and Geographic Distribution (v. 2021 (en). Abgerufen am 29.10.2024.
  4. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass (en). Abgerufen am 29.10.2024.
  5. Octocorallia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico (en). Abgerufen am 29.10.2024.
  6. Octocorals of deepwater communities in the northwestern gulf of mexico (en). Abgerufen am 05.09.2024.

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