Orange Cup Coral (Tubastraea sp.) is a hard coral species from the Indo-Pacific that has established itself throughout the Tropical Western Atlantic, which includes the Caribbean and Gulf. Although it is a hard coral, it is classified as ahermatypic, meaning that it is not considered a reef-building coral .

Orange cup coral (Tubastraea coccinea) belongs to a group of corals known as large-polyp stony corals. This non-reef building coral extends beautiful translucent tentacles at night. [1]

2024年2月28日 · Cup corals are non-reef building species that inhabit shaded vertical surface and caverns down to great depths. There are only two species likely to be seen while scuba diving in Hawaii. They rely upon capturing zooplankton as food and …

Tubastraea coccinea is an azooxanthellate (lacks symbiotic algae) coral commonly known as the Orange Cup Coral or variously, Orange Sun Coral. It has a broad native range, spanning the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea and Madagascar, to the west coast of the tropical Americas from the Gulf of California to Peru.

2020年10月9日 · The orange cup coral (Tubastraea sp.) is a hard coral species that resembles an anemone. Its small, individual polyps (that resemble rigatoni pasta) are cylindrical with tapered, brightly colored tentacles extending from the top.

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Cup coral may refer to several different taxa of coral including: Balanophyllia bonaespei, a species in the family Dendrophylliidae; Turbinaria, a genus in the family Dendrophylliidae

Orange cup coral (Tubastraea coccinea) belongs to a group of corals known as large-polyp stony corals. This non-reef building coral extends beautiful translucent tentacles at night.

Balanophyllia elegans, the orange coral or orange cup coral, is a species of solitary cup coral, a stony coral in the family Dendrophylliidae. It is native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. As an azooxanthellate species, it does not contain symbiotic dinoflagellates in its tissues in the way that most corals do. [1]