Favites pentagona war coral

Favites pentagona is commonly referred to as war coral. Difficulty in the aquarium: Średnio trudny. A aquarium size of at least 150 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Favites pentagona (c) by De Jong Marinelife

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lexID:: 665
AphiaID:: 207446

Scientific:: Favites pentagona
German:: Hirnkoralle
English:: War Coral

Category:: Koralowce twarde LPS

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) > Favites (Genus) > pentagona (Species)
Initial determination:: (Esper, ), 1795

Occurrence:: Kuwait, Sudan, Djibouti, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Eritrea, Cocos Island (Costa Rica), (the) Maldives, American Samoa, Arabian Sea, Australia, Bahrain, China, Christmas Islands, Comores, East Africa, Egypt, Fiji, Great Barrier Reef, Guam, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman / Oman, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Line Islands, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Quatar, Red Sea, Réunion , Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, the Cayman Islands, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Seychelles, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen
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 - 40 Meter
Size:: up to 11.81" (30 cm)
Temperature:: 76.82 °F - 28.9, °F (24.9°C - 28.9,°C)
Food:: Plankton, Zooxanthellae / Light
Tank:: 33 gal (~ 150L)
Difficulty:: Średnio trudny
Offspring:: Easy 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:

More related species in this lexicon:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2004-09-11 18:22:50
Last edit:: 2025-09-12 19:43:22

Captive breeding / propagation

Favites pentagona daje się rozmnażać i w handlu dostępne są zwierzta z hodowli. Bądź człowiekiem, ulżyj środowisku i kup zwierzę z hodowli, zamiast z odłowu.

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Esper, 1794

Description: Colonies are submassive to encrusting, sometimes forming irregular columns. They commonly exceed one metre across. Corallites are thin walled and angular. Septa are few in number. Paliform lobes are well developed, commonly forming a conspicuous crown.
Color: Often brightly coloured, brown or red, commonly with green oral discs.
Habitat:
Abundance: Sometimes common.
Similar Species: Favites bestae and Favites micropentagona. The paliform crown makes this species Goniastrea-like.

Synonyms:
Aphrastrea deformis (Lamarck, 1816)
Astraea deformis Lamarck, 1816
strea deformis Lamarck, 1816
Favia adduensis Gardiner, 1904
Favites gailei Chevalier, 1971
Favites parvicella Nemenzo, 1959
Goniastrea rudis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
Madrepora pentagona Esper, 1795
Plesiastrea haeckeli Brüggemann, 1878
Prionastraea gibbosissima Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
Stephanocoenia maldivensis Gardiner, 1904

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) > Favites (Genus) > Favites pentagona (Species)

External links

Corals of the World (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Karyotypic analysis and isolation of four DNA markers of the scleractinian coral Favites pentagona (Esper, 1795) (Scleractinia, Anthozoa, Cnidari (en). Abgerufen am 06.04.2022.
Reef Builders (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Favites pentagona (c) by De Jong Marinelife

Foto: Shikoku Island. Nishidomari, Otsuki-cho, Hata county, Koch, Japan

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snblau
@snblau

am 16.01.14#1

Bei "Whitecorals" habe ich die außen rot und innen grün gefärbte Koralle erworben (vgl. Abbildung von Detlef Klose). Sie wächst auch unter schwächerem Licht gut und behält die Farbe.
Die Fütterung mit Faunamarin "Ultra LPS grow + colour" (kleine Korngröße) gelingt gut.
Eine dekorative LPS-Koralle!

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