Family: |
Caryophylliidae (cup corals) |
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Environment: |
reef-associated; marine |
Distribution: |
Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean and Indo-West Pacific. |
Diagnosis: |
The stony corals non colonial, whose skeleton limestone reaches 0.35 cm vertically, of oval section, at base little, even hardly narrowed. The tentacles comprise at their end a small spherical bludgeon. Polyps: brownish coupler, brownish or pink, the generally ringed oral disc of a brown ring, drawing towards the red (Ref. 358). |
Biology: |
Epibenthic (Ref. 87524). Polyps establish in excavations and cracks, at lower levels of rock overhangs and on rock faces, at depths greater than 10 m; seldom in shallow waters (Ref. 358). Occurs along the infralittoral, circalittoral and bathyal zones (Ref. 85338). Found throughout the Mediterranean. Associated with the barnacle Pyrgoma anglicum, as symphoriontes (Ref. 358). |
IUCN Red List Status: |
Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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