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Abyssoprimnoa gemina Deep-sea coral

Abyssoprimnoa gemina is commonly referred to as Deep-sea coral. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
16028 
AphiaID:
872590 
Scientific:
Abyssoprimnoa gemina 
German:
Tiefseekoralle 
English:
Deep-sea Coral 
Category:
Hornkoraller (Gorgonier) 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleralcyonacea (Order) > Primnoidae (Family) > Abyssoprimnoa (Genus) > gemina (Species) 
Initial determination:
Cairns, 2015 
Occurrence:
Central Pazific, Clarion-Clipperton Zone 
Marine Zone:
Abyssopelagial
The abyssopelagial ranges from 4000 to 6000 meters deep, here the temperature is close to freezing, the pressure is 400 to 600 times higher than at the surface and there is no sunlight. 
Sea depth:
4111 - 4168 Meter 
Habitats:
Deep sea, Rocky, hard seabeds, Rubble floors 
Size:
0.79" - 1.57" (2cm - 4cm) 
Temperature:
1,45 °F - 1,46 °F (1,45°C - 1,46°C) 
Food:
azooxanthellat, nonphotosynthetic, Carnivore, Zooplankton 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2023-11-01 19:35:51 

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The Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) covers 4.5 million square kilometers between Hawaii and Mexico Central Pacific, it is a deep-sea plain as wide as the continental United States and interrupted by seamounts.

Abyssoprimnoa gemina is a small uniplanar, dichotomously branched colony with paired spherical polyps.

Abyssoprimnoa gemina is among the deepest known octocorals. Several in situ photos of this species are in the Atlas of Abyssal Megafauna.

Etymology
The genus name "Abyssoprimnoa" (from Latin "abyssus"), meaning "bottomless pit",but in conventional oceanographic terminology means a depth range between 3500 and 6500 meters.

Etymology
The species name "gemina" (from Latin "geminus"), means twin birth), in allusion to its paired polyps.

External links

  1. Abyssal fauna of the UK-1 polymetallic nodule exploration area, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Cnidaria (en). Abgerufen am 01.11.2023.
  2. Complete mitochondrial genome of the abyssal coral Abyssoprimnoa gemina Cairns, 2015 (Octocorallia, Primnoidae) from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean (en). Abgerufen am 01.11.2023.
  3. Insights into the abundance and diversity of abyssal megafauna in a polymetallic-nodule region in the eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone (en). Abgerufen am 01.11.2023.
  4. New abyssal Primnoidae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, equatorial northeastern Pacific (en). Abgerufen am 01.11.2023.

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