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Plumapathes pennacea Feather black coral

Plumapathes pennacea is commonly referred to as Feather black coral. Difficulty in the aquarium: 6 - Mycket svår. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
5836 
AphiaID:
290831 
Scientific:
Plumapathes pennacea 
German:
Schwarze Koralle 
English:
Feather Black Coral 
Category:
Hornkoraller (Gorgonier) 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Antipatharia (Order) > Myriopathidae (Family) > Plumapathes (Genus) > pennacea (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Pallas, ), 1766 
Occurrence:
Barbados, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Brazil, Canada Eastern Pacific, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Gulf of Mexico, Honduras, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Mexico (East Pacific), New Zealand, Panama, Philippines, South Atlantic, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Netherlands Antilles, USA, West-Atlantic Ocean 
Sea depth:
5 - 330 Meter 
Size:
up to 59.06" (150 cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Plankton 
Difficulty:
6 - Mycket svår 
Offspring:
Possible to breed 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Appendix II ((commercial trade possible after a safety assessment by the exporting country)) 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2021-11-04 16:28:28 

Captive breeding / propagation

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

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(Pallas, 1766)

The coral is growing on platforms at diveable depths and in cavcs.

The main branches of large colonies are used to commercially produce jewelry.

Color: golden brown to brown, gray and black, red, green or grey-blue to orange.

Depth: 25 to 330 meters.

Synonyms:
Antipathes pennacea Pallas, 1766
Aphanipathes pennacea (Pallas, 1766)

External links

  1. Assessing population changes of historically overexploited black corals (Order: Antipatharia) in Cozumel, Mexico (en). Abgerufen am 04.11.2021.
  2. Marine Species Identification Portal (en) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. Observations of the Antipatharian "Black Coral" Plumapathes pennacea (Pallas, 1766) (Cnidaria: Anthozoa), Northwestern Gulf of Mexico (en). Abgerufen am 04.11.2021.
  4. On the origin of bilaterality : insights from the study of black corals (Cnidaria : Antipatharia) (en). Abgerufen am 04.11.2021.
  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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