Discosoma
| Discosoma | |
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| blue mushroom coral, Discosoma sp. in a marine aquarium | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Anthozoa |
| Order: | Corallimorpharia |
| Family: | Discosomatidae |
| Genus: | Discosoma Rüppell and Leuckart, 1828[1] |
| Species[2] | |
(Incomplete list, ) | |
| Synonyms | |
Discosoma (synonym Actinodiscus), commonly known as mushroom coral, sometimes incorrectly as mushroom anemone or disc anemone, are a genus of soft coral native to the Indian ocean, and commonly collected, worldwide, as an easy coral to grow in marine aquaria.
References & External links
- ↑ "Discosoma Rüppell and Leuckart, 1828". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
- ↑ WoRMS (2010). "Actinodiscus". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
- ↑ de Blainville, H. M. D. (1830). Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (in French) 60. Strasbourg and Paris: F. G. Levrault. p. 287.
- ↑ Harmin, Cha (2007). Systematics of the order Corallimorpharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). University of Kansas. pp. 83–85. ISBN 978-0-549-13246-2.
- Sprung, J. (October 2002). "Aquarium Invertebrates: Mushrooms, Elephants Ears, And False Corals: A Review Of The Corallimorpharia". Advanced Aquarist.
- Red Mushroom Anemones
- Caring for mushroom corals
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