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Oculina diffusa Diffuse ivory bush coral

Oculina diffusa is commonly referred to as Diffuse ivory bush coral. Difficulty in the aquarium: 4 - Medelsvår. A aquarium size of at least 750 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
5247 
AphiaID:
287097 
Scientific:
Oculina diffusa 
German:
Kleinpolypische Steinkoralle 
English:
Diffuse Ivory Bush Coral 
Category:
Stenkoraller - SPS 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Oculinidae (Family) > Oculina (Genus) > diffusa (Species) 
Initial determination:
Lamarck, 1816 
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, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South America, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Minor Outlying Islands, USA, Venezuela, West-Atlantic Ocean 
Marine Zone:
Intertidal (Eulittoral), intertidal zone between the high and low tide lines characterized by the alternation of low and high tide down to 15 meters 
Sea depth:
0 - 40 Meter 
Size:
up to 11.81" (30 cm) 
Temperature:
74.48 °F - 82.4 °F (23.6°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Plankton, Zooplankton 
Tank:
164.98 gal (~ 750L)  
Difficulty:
4 - Medelsvår 
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:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2023-10-07 17:15:18 

Captive breeding / propagation

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

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(Lamarck, 1816)

Special thanks for the photo to George "Keoki" Stender from Hawaiii.

Characters: Colonies are compact or prostrate clumps of short, thin, highly fused, branches. Corallites are up to 5 millimetres diameter and have neat round exsert walls. Long and short septa only slightly alternate. Costae form fine striae over the coenosteum surface.

Colour: Tan with dark calices. Azooxanthellate colonies are white.

Habitat: Shallow reef environments.

Abundance: Rare.

Similar species: Oculina varicosa

Synonym: Madrepora virginea Lamarck, 1816

External links

  1. Corals of the World (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Homepage Keoki Stender, Marine Life Photographie (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. Marine Species Identification Portal (en) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  5. SeaLifeBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  6. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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