Acropora polystoma

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lexID:: 1677
AphiaID:: 207050

Scientific:: Acropora polystoma
German:: Kleinpolypige Steinkoralle
English:: Stony Corals

Category:: Sten koraller SPS
Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Acroporidae (Family) > Acropora (Genus) > polystoma (Species)
Initial determination:: (Brook, ), 1891

Occurrence:: The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), Comores, Djibouti, Cambodia, Mozambique, Wallis and Futuna, Brunei Darussalam, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Réunion , Mayotte, Niue, Eritrea, Sudan, Israel, Vietnam, Kiribati, Nauru, the Society Islands, Tuvalu, Jordan, Amerikansk Samoa, Australien, Cook øerne, Egypten, Fiji, Filippinerne, Fransk Polynesien, Indonesien, Japan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marshall øerne, Mauritius , Mikronesien , Ny Kaledonien, Palau, Papua NeuGuinea , Rødehavet, Salomonøerne, Samoa, Seychellerne, Singapore, Taiwan, Timor, Vanuatu
Sea depth:: 3 - 10 Meter
Size:: bis zu 25cm
Temperature:: 24°C - 27°C
Food:: Plankton, Zooxantheller/Lys
Tank:: ~ 200 Liter
Difficulty:: Not for beginners
Offspring:: Easy to breed

Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown
CITES:: Appendix II ((commercial trade possible after a safety assessment by the exporting country))
Red List:: Vulnerable (VU)

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Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2005-10-19 21:54:52
Last edit:: 2019-06-30 10:41:50

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Acropora polystoma is easy to breed. There are offspring in the trade available. If you are interested in Acropora polystoma, please contact us at Your dealer for a progeny instead of a wildcat. You help to protect the natural stocks.

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From AIMS: Characters:

Colonies are irregular clumps or corymbose plates with tapered branches of similar length and shape. Axial corallites are small and exsert. Radial corallites are usually arranged in rows down branchlet sides. They are irregularly immersed to tubular, giving colonies a spiny appearance.

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