Anthozoa |
Scleractinia |
Poritidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Reef-associated. Subtropical
Northwest Pacific: Japan and Korea.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Colony: small, less than 40 mm across, either hemispherical or encrusting. Septa: rarely connecting long and short fine spines. Color: distinctive dark green, tentacles tipped with a white stripe (Ref. 848).
Found only in shallow, partly wave washed rocky foreshores, among algae and soft corals (Ref. 848).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the class Anthozoa are either gonochoric or hermaphroditic. Mature gametes are shed into the coelenteron and spawned through the mouth. Life cycle: The zygote develops into a planktonic planula larva. Metamorphosis begins with early morphogenesis of tentacles, septa and pharynx before larval settlement on the aboral end.
Ministry of the environment and Japanese coral reef society (ed.). 2004. (Ref. 83544)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
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Price category
Unknown.
