Acropora digitifera

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lexID:: 1749
AphiaID:: 207045

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

Category:: Sten koraller SPS
Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Acroporidae (Family) > Acropora (Genus) > digitifera (Species)
Initial determination:: (Dana, ), 1846

Occurrence:: Australien, Great barrier reef, Indonesien, Koralhavet
Size:: bis zu 25cm
Temperature:: 24°C - 27°C
Food:: Plankton, Zooxantheller/Lys
Tank:: ~ 200 Liter
Difficulty:: ikke en nybegynder kæledyr

CITES:: Appendix II ((commercial trade possible after a safety assessment by the exporting country))

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Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2005-11-26 15:17:20
Last edit:: 2007-05-08 14:07:29

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Colonies are upright or prostrate tangles of branches up to one metre across. Branches are thin and delicate. Axial corallites are long and tubular. Radial corallites are mostly small and tubular to pocket-shaped with sharp edges.

Similar Species: Acropora filiformis. See also A. kirstyae, which has thicker branches and corallites with rounded edges

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