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/The Best Livestock For Your Reef Aquarium:
The Pulsing Soft Corals, Family
Xeniidae, Part 2
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Genus Cespitularia Milne-Edwards & Haime 1850: Soft
colonies, appear translucent, comprised of a few lobe-like branches.
Polyps only on apex and upper areas of stalks. Similar to Xenia, but
stalked bunches of polyps extend downward on stalks. Polyps often appear "basket
like" (tips closely together). Numerous pinnules arranged in 1-4
rows on edges of tentacles. Seventeen nominal species.
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Benayahu Y, van Ofwegen LP, McFadden CS (2018) Evaluating the
genus Cespitularia MilneEdwards & Haime, 1850 with descriptions
of new genera of the family Xeniidae (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea). ZooKeys 754:
63-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.754.23368
Cespitularia sp. N. Sulawesi pix. |
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"Cespitularia sp. 2" N. White body fading to
blue tentacles. Shallow water, reef flat species. One of the
hobbyist-called "Blue Cespitularias". Sulawesi
pix.
Conglomeratusclera coerulea...?
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Cespitularia erecta Macfadyen, 1936. Mauritius 2016 |
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Genus Heteroxenia Kolliker 1874: Characterized by their
heteromorphic condition; possession of longer, non-retractile auto- and
siphonozoid (much shorter polyps, placed on stalks in-between the
autozoids... may only be seen when autozoids are retracted) polyps.
Highly pinnate, long tentacles, typically non-branching
colonies.
Heteroxenia fuscescens (Ehrenberg 1834),
Pom-Pom, Palaver, Pulse Coral. Indo-Pacific; most common in the Red
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Genus Sarcothelia:
Sarcothelia (formerly Anthelia) edmondsonii (Verrill 1928). Blue Soft Coral. Light
blue in color this is one of the few soft corals found in
Hawai'i (and only there). Predated nightly by the Nudibranch
Tritonia hawaiiensis. 1/4" inch across polyps in
colonies 3-12" across. Big Island photos. |
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