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Paralemnalia thyrsoides Soft Coral

Paralemnalia thyrsoidesis 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.

Profilbild Urheber Prof. Michael Schleyer, Südafrika

Foto: Mayotte, Westlicher Indischer Ozean


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lexID:
14996 
AphiaID:
290659 
Scientific:
Paralemnalia thyrsoides 
German:
Weichkoralle 
English:
Soft Coral 
Category:
Soft Corals 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Nephtheidae (Family) > Paralemnalia (Genus) > thyrsoides (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Ehrenberg, ), 1834 
Occurrence:
Eritrea, Australia, Bismarck Archipelago, Cebu ((Philippines), China, Coral sea (Eastern Australia), Great Barrier Reef, Guam, Japan, Madagascar, Mayotte, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Philippines, Queensland (Australia), Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Vietnam, Western Indian Ocean, Zanzibar 
Sea depth:
6 - 15 Meter 
Size:
up to 5.91" (15 cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Zooxanthellae / Light 
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) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2022-07-19 18:19:06 

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Although this soft coral Paralemnalia thyrsoides is generally considered common, it was not frequently encountered in the reefs around Mayotte in the western Indian Ocean.
However, where it did occur, colonies were sometimes abundant.

Paralemnalia thyrsoides is mostly beige in color.

The colonies have a series of a few branched, thickened, asparagus-like lobes arising from a fleshy, encrusting base.

Synonyms:
Ammothea thyrsoides Ehrenberg, 1834 · unaccepted (original combination)
Lemnalia thyrsoides (Ehrenberg, 1834)
Lithophytum thyrsoides (Ehrenberg, 1834)
Lithophytum thyrsoides var. durum Thomson & Henderson, 1906
Paralemnaria thyrsoides (Ehrenberg, 1834)
Verrilliana thyrsoides (Ehrenberg, 1834)

Scientific paper

  1. Novel sesquiterpenoids from the Formosan soft coral Paralemnalia thyrsoides, Ho-Cheng Huang; Zhi-Hong Wen; Chih-Hua Chao; Atallah F. Ahmed; Michael Y. Chiang; Yao-Haur Kuo; Chi-Hsin Hsu; Jyh-Horng Sheu, 2006
  2. A novel chlorinated norsesquiterpenoid and two related new metabolites from the soft coral Paralemnalia thyrsoides, Ho-Cheng Huang; Chih-Hua Chao; Ju-Hsiou Liao; Michael Y. Chiang; Chang-Feng Dai; Yang-Chang Wu; Jyh-Horng Sheu, 2005
  3. New nor-sesquiterpenoids of apparent nardosinane origin from the pacific soft-coral paralemnalia thyrsoides, Richard R. Izac; Phillipe Schneider; Margaret Swain; William Fenical, 1982

External links

  1. Erstbeschreibung als Lithophytum thyrsoides, Seite 427 (en). Abgerufen am 17.07.2022.
  2. Soft corals (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) of the southern Red Sea (en). Abgerufen am 17.07.2022.
  3. The Soft Corals of Mayotte (en). Abgerufen am 17.07.2022.
  4. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 17.07.2022.

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Foto: Mayotte, Westlicher Indischer Ozean

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