Favites acuticollis Stony Coral

Favites acuticollis is commonly referred to as Stony Coral. Difficulty in the aquarium: Average. A aquarium size of at least 200 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:: 2050
AphiaID:: 207452

Scientific:: Favites acuticollis
German:: Hirnkoralle
English:: Stony Coral

Category:: Stony Corals LPS

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) > Favites (Genus) > acuticollis (Species)
Initial determination:: (Ortmann, ), 1889

Occurrence:: Hong Kong, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Kuwait, Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, China, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pulisan, Quatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South-Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, Timor
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:: 0 - 20 Meter
Habitats:: Coral reefs
Size:: up to 11.81" (30 cm)
Temperature:: 80.78 °F - 84.56 °F (27.1°C - 29.2°C)
Food:: Plankton, Zooxanthellae / Light
Tank:: 44 gal (~ 200L)
Difficulty:: Average
Offspring:: Possible to breed
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

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

Red List:

Least concern (LC)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

More related species in this lexicon:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2006-10-05 22:48:11
Last edit:: 2025-09-12 19:50:21

Captive breeding / propagation

The offspring of Favites acuticollis are possible. Unfortunately, the number of offspring is not large enough to cover the demand of the trade. If you are interested in Favites acuticollis, please ask your dealer for offspring. If you already own Favites acuticollis, try breeding yourself. This will help to improve the availability of offspring in the trade and to conserve natural stocks.

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Favites acuticollis, Ortmann, 1889

Description: Colonies are submassive to encrusting. Corallites are deep with very thin angular walls giving colonies a honeycomb appearance. Corallites are usually less than 7 millimetres diameter. Septa are few and widely spaced, paliform lobes are absent.
Color: Dark colours, often with white upper margins to walls.

Similar Species: Favites pentagona, which has thicker walls, slightly larger corallites and well developed paliform lobes. See also F. spinosa, which has very exsert septa and Goniastrea columella, which has paliform lobes.

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Chrysokoll
@Chrysokoll

am 10.01.07#2

Ok, nachdem unteren und auch neuerem Foto sieht es mehr nach Favites aus.

benny1006
@benny1006

am 20.10.06#1

Empfindlich gegen Fadenalgen wie alle Favite.
Hat ziemlich lange Kampftentakel und vernesselt alles erreichbare !

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