Adeonellopsis meandrina Brown pore-plated false coral

Adeonellopsis meandrina is commonly referred to as Brown pore-plated false coral. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!.

Johan Swanepoel, Südafrika

Adeonellopsis meendrina (Brown pore-plated false coral),Port Elzabeth,Copyright Johan Swanepoel

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lexID:: 9435
AphiaID:: 469025

Scientific:: Adeonellopsis meandrina
German:: Moostierchen
English:: Brown Pore-plated False Coral

Category:: Bryozoa

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Bryozoa (Phylum) > Gymnolaemata (Class) > Cheilostomatida (Order) > Adeonidae (Family) > Adeonellopsis (Genus) > meandrina (Species)
Initial determination:: (O'Donoghue & de Watteville, ), 1944

Occurrence:: South-Africa
Size:: up to 19.69" (50 cm)
Temperature:: °F - 62.6 °F (°C - 17°C)
Food:: Filter feeder
Difficulty:: Not suitable for home aquaria!

CITES:

Not evaluated

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Adeonellopsis antilleana
Adeonellopsis arculifera
Adeonellopsis baccata
Adeonellopsis coscinophora
Adeonellopsis crosslandi
Adeonellopsis distoma
Adeonellopsis falcifera
Adeonellopsis foliacea
Adeonellopsis hexangularis
Adeonellopsis japonica
Adeonellopsis meandrina
Moostierchen
Adeonellopsis multiporosa
Adeonellopsis parvipuncta
Adeonellopsis pentapora
Adeonellopsis portmarina
Adeonellopsis sulcata
Adeonellopsis tuberculata
Adeonellopsis unilamellosa

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2016-03-04 20:11:38
Last edit:: 2016-03-04 20:11:38

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Adeonellopsis meandrina (O'Donoghue & de Watteville, 1944)

Colony form twisted dark purple-brown plates, and grows on vertical rock faces,where its free from silt to dephts of 2-50 m.Mossanomals are filterfeeder.

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Bryozoa (Phylum) > Gymnolaemata (Class) > Cheilostomatida (Order) > Flustrina (Suborder) > Adeonoidea (Superfamily) > Adeonidae (Family) > Adeonellopsis (Genus) > Adeonellopsis meandrina (Species)

External links

Eastern Cape Scuba Diving (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Wikipedia englisch (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Adeonellopsis meendrina (Brown pore-plated false coral),Port Elzabeth,Copyright Johan Swanepoel

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