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Montastraea cavernosa Stony Coral

Montastraea cavernosais commonly referred to as Stony Coral. Difficulty in the aquarium: Average. A aquarium size of at least 150 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Greater Star Coral, Montastraea cavernosa, Pattys Paradise 2022


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lexID:
3453 
AphiaID:
287962 
Scientific:
Montastraea cavernosa 
German:
Steinkoralle 
English:
Stony Coral 
Category:
Stony Corals LPS 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Montastraeidae (Family) > Montastraea (Genus) > cavernosa (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Linnaeus, ), 1767 
Occurrence:
Barbados, Benin, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Gambia, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Florida, Gabon, Grenada, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé e Principé, Senegal, Sierra Leone, The Bahamas, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Netherlands Antilles, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Minor Outlying Islands, USA, Venezuela 
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 - 113 Meter 
Size:
up to 78.74" (200 cm) 
Temperature:
64.4 °F - 82.4 °F (18°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Plankton 
Tank:
33 gal (~ 150L)  
Difficulty:
Average 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
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:
2022-08-10 09:34:58 

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Montastrea cavernosa
Linnaeus, 1766

Montastraea cavernosa can be found in the tropical western Atlantic, from the Bahamas to the Caribbean and along the coast of Brazil to about Rio de Janeiro. In the Caribbean, it is one of the most important reef-building corals.

Class: Anthozoa (Anthozoa)
Subclass: Hexacorallia
Order: stony corals (Scleractinia)
Family: Faviidae
Genus: Montastraea
Species: Montastraea cavernosa

Initially this coral was incorrectly assigned as Diploastrea Heliopora since the corallit and the appearance are very similar. With the help of Detlef Klose we could correctly assign the coral, thank you for your support Detlef.

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Scientific paper

  1. Coral growth patterns of Montastraea cavernosa and Porites astreoides in the Florida Keys: The importance of thermal stress and inimical waters, Manzello, Derek P.; Enochs, Ian C.; Kolodziej, Graham; Carlton, Renée , 2015
  2. Diazotrophic diversity in the Caribbean coral,Montastraea cavernosa, Nathan D. Olson,Michael P. Lesser, 2013
  3. Polymorphism in a common Atlantic reef coral (Montastraea cavernosa) and its long-term evolutionary implications, Ann F. Budd; Flavia L. D. Nunes; Ernesto Weil; John M. Pandolfi, 2012
  4. Photoacclimatization by the coral Montastraea cavernosa in the mesophotic zone: light, food, and genetics, Lesser, Michael P.; Slattery, Marc; Stat, Michael; Ojimi, Michiko; Gates, Ruth D.; Grottoli, Andrea , 2010
  5. Cellular reactions to sedimentation and temperature stress in the Caribbean coral Montastraea cavernosa, Bernardo Vargas-Ángel; Esther C. Peters; Esti Kramarsky-Winter; David S. Gilliam; Richard E. Dodge, 2007
  6. Nitrogen fixation by symbiotic cyanobacteria provides a source of nitrogen for the scleractinian coral Montastraea cavernosa, Lesser, MP; Falcón, LI; Rodríguez-Román, A; Enríquez, S; Hoegh-Guldberg, O; Iglesias-Prieto, R , 2007
  7. Deepwater broadcast spawning byMontastraea cavernosa, Montastraea franksi, andDiploria strigosaat the Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico, Peter D. Vize, 2006
  8. Light Absorption and Utilization by Colonies of the Congeneric Hermatypic Corals Montastraea faveolata and Montastraea cavernosa, Michael P. Lesser, Charles Mazel, David Phinney and Charles S. Yentsch, 2000
  9. Dynamics Behind Standoff Interactions in Three Reef Sponge Species and the Coral Montastraea cavernosa, Lisanne A. M. Aerts, 2000

External links

  1. Corals of the World (en). Abgerufen am 10.08.2022.
  2. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 10.08.2022.
  3. SeaLifeBase (multi). Abgerufen am 10.08.2022.
  4. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 10.08.2022.

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