Meandrina meandrites Maze Coral

Meandrina meandrites is commonly referred to as Maze Coral. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. A aquarium size of at least 240 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Maze Coral, Meandrina meandrites, Eel Garden 2022

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AphiaID:: 289232

Scientific:: Meandrina meandrites
German:: Labyrinth-Koralle
English:: Maze Coral

Category:: Stenkoraller - LPS

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Meandrinidae (Family) > Meandrina (Genus) > meandrites (Species)
Initial determination:: (Linnaeus, ), 1758

Occurrence:: Barbados, Guadeloupe, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico (East Pacific), Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Venezuela, West-Atlantic Ocean
Marine Zone:: Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic.
Sea depth:: 0,5 - 80 Meter
Size:: up to 13.78" (35 cm)
Temperature:: 75.2 °F - 78.8 °F (24°C - 26°C)
Food:: Phytoplankton, Plankton, Zooxanthellae / Light
Tank:: 52.79 gal (~ 240L)
Difficulty:: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully
Offspring:: Possible to breed
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Appendix II ((commercial trade possible after a safety assessment by the exporting country))

Red List:

Least concern (LC)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Meandrina meandrites
Labyrinth-Koralle

More related species in this lexicon:

Meandrina danai
großpolypige Steinkoralle

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2012-06-27 14:43:27
Last edit:: 2020-04-24 17:18:31

Captive breeding / propagation

The offspring of Meandrina meandrites are possible. Unfortunately, the number of offspring is not large enough to cover the demand of the trade. If you are interested in Meandrina meandrites, please ask your dealer for offspring. If you already own Meandrina meandrites, try breeding yourself. This will help to improve the availability of offspring in the trade and to conserve natural stocks.

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“From Veron, J.E.N. Corals of the World.”

Meandrina meandrites
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Characters: Colonies are submassive and meandroid, often forming thick plates. They are rarely columnar. Valleys radiate from the original point of growth and divide at regular intervals maintaining a constant width. Septo-costae of adjacent valleys are seldom joined at the top of valley walls and are evenly spaced. Orders alternate at the colony periphery and sometimes elsewhere.

Colour: Grey or pale brown.

Habitat: Most reef environments.

Abundance: Usually uncommon but conspicuous.

Taxonomic note: The validity of Meandrina braziliensis as distinct from M. meandrites may be artificial. Source reference: Veron (2000). Taxonomic references: Roos (1971), Zlatarski and Estalella (1982), Cairns (1982). Additional identification guides: Colin (1978), Humann (1993).

Synonyms:
Brachymaeandrina pachychila (Ehrenberg, 1834)
Coeloria pachychila (Ehrenberg, 1834)
Ctenophyllia pachyphylla (Ehrenberg, 1834)
Ctenophyllia pectinata (Lamarck, 1801)
Ctenophyllia profunda Dana, 1846
Ctenophyllia quadrata Dana, 1846
Goreaugyra memorialis Wells, 1973
Madrepora labyrinthica Pallas, 1766
Madrepora meandrites Linnaeus, 1758
Maeandra (Platygyra) labyrinthica var. leptochila Ehrenberg, 1834
Maeandra (Platygyra) labyrinthica var. pachychila Ehrenberg, 1834
Maeandrina labyrinthica (Pallas, 1766)
Manicina maeandrites (Linnaeus, 1758)
Manicina pachyphylla Ehrenberg, 1834
Manicina pectinata (Lamarck, 1801)
Meandra labyrinthiformis Oken, 1815
Meandrina labyrinthica (Pallas, 1766)
Meandrina meandrites f. meandrites (Linnaeus, 1758)
Meandrina meandrites f. memorialis (Wells, 1973)
Meandrina meandrites meandrites (Linnaeus, 1758)
Meandrina meandrites meandrites f. memoriales (Wells, 1973)
Meandrina meandrites meandrites f. typica Zlatarski, 1982
Meandrina pectinata Lamarck, 1801
Pectinia caribaea Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Pectinia cariboea Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
Pectinia disticha Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
Pectinia elegans Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
Pectinia meandrites (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pectinia pachyphyllia (Ehrenberg, 1834)
Pectinia pectinata (Lamarck, 1801)
Pectinia profunda (Dana, 1846)
Pectinia quadrata (Dana, 1846)
Pectinia sebae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
Platygyra labyrinthica var. pachychila (Ehrenberg, 1834)

External links

Corals of the World by Charlie Veron (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
SeaLifeBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Commonly

Copyright Wolfram Sander, Maria La Gorda,Cuba

© Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens, Holland

Meandrina meandrites. Caribbean. Surface of a submassive colony. Photograph: Charlie Veron.

Maze Coral, Meandrina meandrites, Eel Garden, 2022

roa10722,Maze Coral, Meandrina meandrites, Wrasse Hole,2022

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