Scolymia wellsii Button Scolly

Scolymia wellsii is commonly referred to as Button Scolly. Difficulty in the aquarium: Average. A aquarium size of at least 150 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

6784 

AphiaID:

287854 

Scientific:

Scolymia wellsii 

German:

Großpolypige Steinkoralle 

English:

Button Scolly 

Category:

Stony Corals LPS 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Faviidae (Family) > Scolymia (Genus) > wellsii (Species) 

Initial determination:

Laborel, 1967 

Occurrence:

Barbados, Guadeloupe, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Minor Outlying Islands, USA, Venezuela 

Sea depth:

10 - 40 Meter 

Size:

up to 3.94" (10 cm) 

Temperature:

71.6 °F - 82.4 °F (22°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Brine Shrimps, Frozen food (small sorts), Krill, LPS-Food, Mysis, Zooxanthellae / Light 

Tank:

33 gal (~ 150L)  

Difficulty:

Average 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Appendix II ((commercial trade possible after a safety assessment by the exporting country)) 

Red List:

Data deficient (DD) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Scolymia cubensis
  Artischocken-Koralle
• 
  Scolymia lacera
  Großpolypige Steinkoralle
• 
  Scolymia wellsii
  Großpolypige Steinkoralle

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2014-02-16 17:52:45 

Last edit:

2018-01-21 18:10:24 

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