Euphyllia glabrescens
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| Euphyllia glabrescens | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Anthozoa |
| Order: | Scleractinia |
| Family: | Euphylliidae |
| Genus: | Euphyllia |
| Species: | E. glabrescens' |
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Euphyllia glabrescens Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821 |
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Euphyllia glabrescens is a species of large-polyped stony coral belonging to the Caryophylliidae family. Its common name is the torch coral due to its long sweeper tentacles tipped with potent cnidocytes. It is a commonly kept species in the marine aquarium hobby, particularly specimens from Indonesia and Fiji, who fulfilled annual export quotas of 28,000 and 6,000 pieces, respectively, in 2005.
Euphyllia glabrescens is a colonial coral with a phaceloid formation of corallites 20-30 millimeters (0.8 - 1.2 inches) in diameter and spaced 15-30 millimeters (0.6 - 1.2 inches) apart. Walls are thin, with sharp edges. Polyps have large tubular tentacles with knob-like tips. It can be a number of colors, and is often bicolored with contrasting tentacles and polyp tips.
Green, yellow polyps
Beige, green polyps
Beige, white polyps
This is a widely distributed species, rare to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, while uncommon through the northern Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, the central Indo-Pacific, Australia, Southeast Asia, southern Japan and the East China Sea, Micronesia, and American Samoa.
Euphyllia glabrescens can be founds in depths of 1 to 35 meters (3 – 115 feet) in a wide range of reef environments
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