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Hedera caerulescens Blue Ivy Coral

Hedera caerulescens is commonly referred to as Blue Ivy Coral. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully.


Profilbild Urheber Dr. D. Wilson Freshwater, USA

Foto: North Carolina, USA


Courtesy of the author Dr. D. Wilson Freshwater, USA

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lexID:
11270 
AphiaID:
1055857 
Scientific:
Hedera caerulescens 
German:
Weichkoralle 
English:
Blue Ivy Coral 
Category:
Mykkoraller 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Alcyoniidae (Family) > Hedera (Genus) > caerulescens (Species) 
Initial determination:
Conti-Jerpe & Freshwater, 2017 
Occurrence:
USA, West-Atlantic Ocean 
Sea depth:
13 - 34 Meter 
Size:
0,1 cm 
Temperature:
53.6 °F - 77 °F (12°C - 25°C) 
Food:
Zooxanthellae / Light 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
Offspring:
None 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
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in this lexicon
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2017-12-14 18:59:35 

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Conti-Jerpe & Freshwater, 2017

Very special thanks for the first photo of Hedera caerulescens to the describing scientist, Dr. David Wilson Freshwater, Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA.

Source:
CSIRO Publishing
Invertebrate Systematics 31(6) 723-733 https://doi.org/10.1071/IS16069
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Previous Next Contents Vol 31(6)
Hedera caerulescens (Alcyonacea : Alcyoniidae), a new genus and species of soft coral from the temperate North Atlantic: invasive in its known range?
Autoren: I. E. Conti-Jerpe and D. W. Freshwater
Published: 10 November 2017

External links

  1. CSIRO Publishing (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Reefs (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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