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Rhodolitica occulta Soft Coral

Rhodolitica occulta is commonly referred to as Soft Coral. 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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Foto: Chatham Bay, Kokos-Insel, Costa Rica

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lexID:
13933 
AphiaID:
1506033 
Scientific:
Rhodolitica occulta 
German:
Weichkoralle 
English:
Soft Coral 
Category:
Soft Corals 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Clavulariidae (Family) > Rhodolitica (Genus) > occulta (Species) 
Initial determination:
Breedy, van Ofwegen, McFadden & Murillo-Cruz, 2021 
Occurrence:
Cocos Island (Costa Rica), Endemic species 
Sea depth:
20 - 55 Meter 
Size:
up to 0.79" (2 cm) 
Temperature:
78.8 °F - 82.4 °F (26°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Amphipods, azooxanthellat, nonphotosynthetic, Carnivore, Copepods, Zooplankton 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
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:
2021-06-08 19:13:28 

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Scientific Resource:
Breedy O, van Ofwegen L, McFadden CS, Murillo-Cruz C (2021)
Rhodolitica on rhodoliths: a new stoloniferan genus (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea).
ZooKeys 1032: 63-77. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1032.63431

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

External links

  1. Rhodolitica on rhodoliths: a new stoloniferan genus (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) (en). Abgerufen am 08.06.2021.
  2. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 08.06.2021.

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Habitat , Kokos-Insel
Foto: Chatham Bay, Kokos-insel, Costa Rica
Foto: Chatham Bay, Kokos-Insel, Costa Rica

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